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The Ultralight Hiker on the Dusky Track
30/01/2023: What kind of pill should you take – I choose the white pill: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/29/take-the-white-pill/
30/01/2023: NASA has
reignited its nuclear propulsion rocket system it cancelled with Omega decades
ago: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-nasa-nuclear-rocket-plan-aims-to-get-to-mars-in-just-45-days?fbclid=IwAR3slVtRk0ONpaShEauzboR__ZxtL-dMyuwTYDnSkPpWuIxm4BUuTW9r0sg
30/01/2023: Will the
public ever see a ‘No’ case? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/voice-referendum-doomed/
30/01/2023: Eagles are probably incapable of learning to avoid wind turbines: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/28/guardian-google-are-not-trying-hard-enough-to-censor-climate-deniers/
29/01/2023: Interesting New Windscreen: A reader drew my attention to this interesting piece of parallel evolution. The X-Boil is a roll-up windscreen very similar to my roll-up titanium stove which I posted about here a year earlier than the X-Boil. I made later modifications to it in pots here and here, though until last week when Craig alerted me to it I had never heard of X-Boil. I have copied the photo of it from their site - I hope they don't mind - I don't speak (or write) German.
It has an interesting button-loop closure which is another solution to the hook and eye type ‘chimney’ closure I finally settled on. I think the latter has perhaps slightly less ‘give’ in it which may be preferable in the field.
X-Boil has come up with some added ventilation options (which Craig seems to think mine needs), though I have not as yet found this myself. I have to congratulate X-Boil on the modification to the upper edge which allows for the use of a frypan. This is an outstanding idea. As a keen Ultralight Fisherman I wholly endorse this change and will incorporate it in my next model. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/01/28/interesting-new-windscreen/
29/01/2023: Lunch
Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCYDzsQ_yM
29/01/2023: How well do these Nato tanks measure up – and will they need to send nukes next? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11674247/M1-Abrams-tank-vs-Leopard-2-Challenger-2-differences.html
29/01/2023: It had to
happen:
28/01/2023: Garden
Doings:
(Della) We often see satin bowerbirds in the garden at fruit-ripening time, but
yesterday gave us a special treat: I discovered a hesitant fledgling bowerbird
that had been separated from his frantic mother by a flock of noisy cockatoos
wheeling overhead. Mum was flying about and calling from a nearby tree, and you
can see her join her baby in the video before being frightened off again by a
lone cocky. Eventually (after I had retreated with my camera) they were able to
find enough peace to reunite and fly to safety together. Welcome to our newest
eater of the windfall apples and other fruity delicacies from our garden. The
other random pic is one of my giant birds of paradise trees that I caught flowering
spectacularly whilst I still had camera in hand.
28/01/2023: So much can still be learned from ancient thinkers such as Epicurus and Buddha: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/26/living-for-pleasure-by-emily-a-austin-an-epicurean-guide-to-happiness
28/01/2023: The Left and their ‘trigger warnings’ meet Shakespeare and Beowulf – It could get ugly: https://jonathanturley.org/2023/01/26/tragedy-might-be-triggering-british-universities-add-warnings-for-greek-and-shakespearean-plays/
28/01/2023: Who knows
whether this Project Veritas story is true or not; we may never know. I
certainly believe that the power of evil is immense and that the forces of good
have always fought a rearguard action against it. In this instance I long ago
observed that Pfizer had undoubtedly suborned a myriad of ‘important’ folk
(politicians, health bureaucrats etc) with cash payments in order to
28/01/2023: It isn’t the Virgin Mary or Jesus but it certainly looks like a bear: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-just-discovered-a-bear-on-mars
27/01/2023: The
“There’s many a coat that is tattered and torn,
That beneath lies a true honest heart.
But because he’s not dressed like his neighbors in style,
Society keeps them apart.
For on one fortune smiles, while the other one fails,
Yes, no matter what venture he tries.
Time calls them both to the grave in the end,
And six feet of earth makes us all one size.”
27/01/2023: If someone else was massacring whales, birds and bats as the Greens are, you would expect someone to get upset – at least the Greens would get upset, surely? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/the-strange-coincidence-of-the-offshore-wind-industry-and-178-dead-whales/
27/01/2023: Heart attacks up 17%, but who cares? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/fatal-heart-attacks-up-17-percent-in-australia/ This will bankrupt Pfizer: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/breaking-the-silence-do-mrna-vaccine-harms-outweigh-benefits/
27/01/2023: All along
our coastline you can see this same evidence that sea level has actually fallen
– just open your eyes. Then maybe you will begin to doubt the global warming
doomsters. Sea level has (naturally) been falling since the Holocene
(maximum 6-8000 years ago) the warmest
period between the great ice ages when the earth was at its warmest. Since then
we have been slowly moving back into another ice age. Don’t expect to be able
to walk to
26/01/2023: On
this day in 1778 Della's great great great grandfather Private Lawrence
Richards
26/01/2023: I have always loved butter, cream etc. Now I know for sure it was good for me too: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/cheese-butter-not-necessarily-linked-to-death/565253/
26/01/2023: Forget about the lithium and cobalt shortage; there is just not enough plain old copper in the ground for the ‘net zero revolution’. It is madness to mandate the impossible as Canute demonstrated: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/24/the-copper-conundrum/
26/01/2023: Maybe you can remember when Jacinta Price warned that dropping the welfare cash card controls would lead to a spike in alcohol fueled violence (especially against women) in remote communities. Then Albanese and his mates decided to end alcohol bans as well – because they were ‘racist’, even though the victimized women wanted them. Now without recourse to a ‘Voice’ at all, he has re-introduced them. What’s next? Another Howard style military intervention at hell-holes like Wadeye which is doubtless just as bad (if not worse) than it was back then? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/albos-alice-alcohol-back-flip/
26/01/2023: There is a point where I cease to be a libertarian and echo those who would see the death penalty for child molesters. I think I now want to include fantasy child molesters in this too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/predatory/instagram-slammed-for-letting-child-sex-dolls-to-be-sold-online-as-border-force-seizes-illegal-trade/news-story/cbedb136cae4afbd23cdc284a8d8ed77
25/01/2023: How good are ‘scientific trials’? This (satirical) paper shows that there is no evidence that parachutes help: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/rct-study-shows-parachutes-make-no-difference-when-jumping-from-aircraft/
25/01/2023: Could ultrasound be the fountain of youth – it had better hurry up for me if it is: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Fsound-waves-reversing-aging%2F
Another one here – will we live forever: https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://studyfinds.org/anti-aging-gene-fountain-of-youth/
25/01/2023: The Land Rover Defender replacement is just about to hit the market: https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/spy-pics-ineos-grenadier-ute-breaks-cover-139231/?fbclid=IwAR3WPg7Qsb8DZVICQPUANvp7iPUXtnTXm9hZSyntvc8FYwzMJ65-k07iz1M
25/01/2023: You have
to honour the spirit of sacrifice:
24/01/2023: A solar powered lighter – an expensive way to make your BIC renewable: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solis-x-world-s-first-solar-rechargeable-lighter#/
24/01/2023: Let them eat bugs: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/let-them-eat-bugs.php But there already is a food production ‘crisis’: https://richardsonpost.com/michael-snyder/30286/the-worst-food-crisis-in-modern-history/
24/01/2023: Of course our climate thermometers are always perfectly sited (as they are supposed to be) with only (mown grass) within 50 metres or so of them - and there is no urban heat island effect by the growth of a huge city all around them: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/01/urbanization-effects-on-ghcn-temperature-trends-part-i-the-urbanization-characteristics-of-the-ghcn-stations/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/jolly-odd-what-sydney-observatory-record-cold-spell-broken-with-help-from-awol-solar-panel/
24/01/2023: You and I who have lived in the bush all our lives (and love it) would call it ‘alienation’: https://scitechdaily.com/natures-decline-the-distance-between-humans-and-nature-is-growing/
23/01/2023: So, birds were around before the dinosaurs vanished: https://scitechdaily.com/evolving-backward-discovery-overturns-more-than-a-century-of-knowledge-about-the-origin-of-modern-birds/
23/01/2023:
23/01/2023: Yeah, sure. The boys will love their new quiet choppers – and buy them like crazy: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/harley-davidson-will-soon-be-all-electric-ceo-says/ar-AA16zEgK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=edb475dccdbf485bb961be3fe042063c
23/01/2023: 15 Reasons Completely Unrelated To The Vaccine People Are
Dying Suddenly: https://babylonbee.com/news/15-reasons-completely-unrelated-to-the-vaccine-people-are-dying-suddenly
22/01/2023: Buzz still has the right stuff: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/special-punch-in-honor-of-buzz-aldrins-93rd-birthday/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/famous-astronaut-marries-93-excited-eloping-teenagers/
22/01/2023: Norwegian
government funds research to find out if white paint is racist: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftpn.net%2Fnorwegian-government-funds-research-to-find-out-if-white-paint-isracist%2F
22/01/2023: Rats had
a bad press: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-might-have-been-wrong-about-the-role-rats-played-in-the-black-death
22/01/2023: Duh: “When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we – a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives – are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet…It’s so… almost extra-terrestrial to think about, saving the planet. If you say that to most people most people, they think you’re just a crazy tree hugging and lefty liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever.” John Kerry at Davos
21/01/2023: ‘Only
Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol,
caffeine, sugar and fat.’ Alex Levine
21/01/2023: Graphene
Fabrics on the way: https://backpackinglight.com/forums/topic/graphene-embedded-polymers/
21/01/2023: This will work out well: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/it-takes-5-days-to-charge-a-hummer-ev/
21/01/2023: Let them not eat cake: https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/british-food-tsar-hints-cake-ban-office-compares-health-harms-passive-smoking
20/01/2023: Leeks were eaten
in ancient
20/01/2023: Anti-aging is on the way, but hurry up guys: https://www.science.org/content/article/two-research-teams-reverse-signs-aging-mice
20/01/2023: These ‘elites’ are just
barking mad: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/its-a-cult-the-wef-are-the-select-few-touched-as-saviors-of-the-world-to-master-the-future/
20/01/2023: Viagra anyone? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11649627/Viagra-users-25-likely-suffer-early-death.html
19/01/2023: “Your husband is a polar bear, skinny.”: https://apnews.com/article/fema-alaskan-native-wrong-translations-707ab611f0d171ae2e34fc3f284454a7
19/01/2023: Wonnangatta Again: After
three days of (once again poorly reported) ‘evidence’ I think we can begin to
piece together the solution to this ‘mystery’: Russell had visited the area
a week before (if you remember). Almost certainly this was to choose a campsite
and quite probably to get in a good supply of firewood. At ‘normal’ times when
there are few folks about this might have worked out, but not a week before a
holiday long weekend. On this occasion when he arrived there were (presumably)
already two cars camped at ‘his’ site, one of them
19/01/2023: Maybe you voted to make
this possible? I did not: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/update-gruesome-details-released-gay-activist-couples-crimes-adopted-sons-warning-content/
19/01/2023: ‘Racial’ classification
is just nuts, whether it is the
18/01/2023: SpaceX is just great: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/spacex-launch-is-awesome-and-thats-how-we-will-land-on-mars/
18/01/2023: Wonnangatta Murders:
Goodness knows how this will work out, but by the third day police seem to have
one clear piece of evidence which will damn
One would think that the phone would have been switched off, yet nonetheless ‘modern’ ‘fixed battery’ phones now have a supplementary battery which keeps time/geolocation alive even so. Edward Snowden alerted us to the ‘spooks’s ability to track this (after the event) even if no search warrant had been issued (before the event) – and it appears he is right. Future crims will be alerted to this if they had not been by 1990s Bruce Willis movies! Astonishing that an airline pilot (who should have known better) carried these phones so far. My own ‘guess’ was that the murderer would have disposed of the bodies and such evidence as soon as possible (before reaching ‘populated’ areas) – but not this guy apparently.
The first day of ‘evidence’ was weird – and made no sense. ‘Witnesses’ gave
‘evidence’ of events completely contrary to the ‘known’ movements of the couple
from nearly two years ago now, ie that they called their friend around 3:00 pm
on the Friday afternoon 20th March from the Howitt Road outside the valley (for directions) then
drove into the Wonnangatta (Dry Creek) and called him again at 6:00pm 20th
March saying he had just arrived at camp in the Valley. The previous night
(Thursday 19th March) they had (‘always’) spent on the Howitt Plains
outside the valley – the haunt of the so-called ‘Button Man’ – if you recall
all previous reports of their movements. One wonders why police had interviewed
that individual if phone records (pings from the
Still,
18/01/2023: Our masters need their mistresses who can be flown in by jet plane (all at the public expense – what a trough!) whilst we peddle bicycles and eat bugs: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/report-high-priced-prostitutes-descend-davos-high-powered-leaders-world-economic-forum/
18/01/2023: The Albanese communist
government’s ‘reforms’ of the gas
17/01/2023: Nuclear power in your pocket? ‘Soon’ to come for future ultralight hikers: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/01/nuclear-power-cell-for-space-satellites-that-are-cup-size-instead-of-dishwasher-size.html
17/01/2023: The Shed: If only all of us could triumph over the ‘planners’ as this old man did: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/the-old-mans-tale/
17/01/2023: Remember when electricity cost <$30/meg and we had a reliable supply: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/12/south-australia-does-it-again/
17/01/2023: Excess
deaths likely caused by MRNA vaccines: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/temporary-morgues-built-across-uk-due-unprecedented-increase-excess-deaths/
16/01/2023: DIY Shoulder Pouches: My new Zpacks Arc Haul Ultra came without shoulder pockets (or pouches) as I could so easily make my own, as I have done this morning (forgetting to photograph the process too sorry!) If you have ‘recently) purchased a sewing machine as I have (often) suggested, you can make a pair too. I hope this post helps you do so.
I measured the space on the pack where they would have to fit and came up with dimensions of my four pieces of material as follows. Two pieces for the pack strap sleeves that started at 7″ x 6″ and two pieces for the pouches that stated at 6″ x 15″. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/01/15/diy-shoulder-pouches/
16/01/2023: Ibn
Battutah, The Islamic Marco Polo. “Whereas Marco Polo was rather
tight-lipped about sex, Ibn Battutah seems to have copulated his way across the
then-known world with hundreds of slave girls, concubines, and temporary
“wives.” He also left more than a few offspring in his wake. His trip lasted 29
years and was three times the length of Marco Polo’s. He writes about not only
what he actually experienced, but also includes gossip, rumors, and legends
about the things and the people he encountered. Some of it is rather
horrifying.”: https://www.amazon.com/Travels-Battutah-Macmillan-Collectors-Library/dp/1909621471/ref=asc_df_1909621471/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312021455910&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3526682798586221892&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003435&hvtargid=pla-489921632055&psc=1
16/01/2023: In case
you don’t think the transgender cult has gone too far: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/frankenstein-.html
16/01/2023: Frankly I
think gas stoves were just about the best kitchen ‘invention’. We would not be
without ours: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/14/calls-to-ban-gas-stoves-are-anti-science-anti-freedom-and-anti-energy/
16/01/2023: Electric
cars are not working out well for the
15/01/2023: Finnsheep - Unexpected second lambing. This fourteen year old ewe has lambed unexpectedly for the second time this year. I hardly expected her to live (She had been quite ill after her first lambing back in August), let alone do this. She has been a spectacular ewe with four working teats who has often raised quads (when she was younger).
She and another brilliant old ewe have been in a small ‘retirement’ paddock just in case they happened to raise a bonus lamb (in 2023) after a long and productive life (around forty lambs raised each - in paddock conditions).
I have had a very special young triplet ram in with them just so he doesn’t get hurt by the other rams as he has outstanding genetics and we really want progeny from him (later this year).
I was very surprised to see her with this (second, unplanned) out-of-season lamb at foot this morning. It is only one but it is a four-teated ewe lamb - so somewhat like winning the lottery for us.
The proud dad:
Here she is with a set of quads last year.
Finnsheep can relatively easily be managed to lamb twice per
year. We have clients with thousands of our Finnsheep in air-conditioned sheds
eg in the
We do not usually lamb ours the second time because there is not enough stock feed here in summer to raise a second lambing well so it is too hard on the ewe and the lambs.
15/01/2023: “I do not
own a coal mine. I am a professor of literature at an American college. We
professors, like the mine owners, do not do hard manual labour for a living.
Unlike those mine owners, if I may speak generally, we spend none of our time
around such men. We do not break bread with them, we do not live near them, we
do not worship at the same church, our children do not see one another on the
streets. We are almost entirely insulated from the exigencies of bodily life.
We do not grow our own fruit and vegetables, we do not build our own homes, we
do not raise our own livestock, we do not dig our own wells, we do not repair
our own vehicles, we do not clear our own fields, we do not pave our own
driveways and roads, we do not lay the bricks for our own schools, we do not
fight our own fights.” Anthony Esolen, reflecting on John Ford’s great movie,
‘How Green was My Valley’ (& who also does not know what a semi-colon is).
Far too many like him – and yet unlike, for most show no remorse and are ever assured
of their own superiority! God save us from the ‘elites’: http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2014/01/theres-equality-theres-equality/
15/01/2023: The
nation state is increasingly a prison and moreso a ‘panopticon’ one where we
should certainly believe ‘we are being watched’, as we have no control over ubiquitous cameras
and microphones which (are intended to) surveil us and control us. The
prospects for ‘liberty’ are dismal. It is still (though barely) within living
memory that the passport was invented (an ‘emergency
14/01/2023: The last
free people…I was wondering around 3:00am what has become of them. Do any
exist in the brave new world order which has been building its walls and stringent
controls all around us. You know, people like the Lapps and Samoyeds – the
reindeer people, and the various gypsy tribes for example. What an astonishing
achievement by the former. Imagine domesticating reindeer which can live where
there is only (inedible) moss to eat, and yet move about with them and thrive
in the most inhospitable of wildernesses- and sustain a lively culture. The
closing of the Soviet borders must have had a profound effect on them. When we
were in
14/01/2023: Surviving the Holocaust but not our Brave New World (Order): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/holocaust-survivor-hiding-ordered-psychiatric-institution-german-court-faces-forced-covid-vaccine/
14/01/2023: Let’s see the Greens get behind this one: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Holtec-claims-SMR-160-can-repurpose-any-coal-fired?fbclid=IwAR0b0sVTcF6VChSoXpsPcrlhKQqfaIScHKq1THqyMiQovafVtEPpJGQm02A
14/01/2023: Antarctic icebergs have not changed in 300 years; so much for catastrophic global warming: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/2000-gigatons-of-plant-wrecking-co2-and-icebergs-around-antarctica-are-the-same-as-the-1700s/
13/01/2023: Why
‘
13/01/2023: Much
as they tout ‘diversity’ the elites in fact favor only conformity, so
innovation is stifled: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/its-official-everywhere-in-science-theres-a-mysterious-lack-of-ground-breaking-papers/
13/01/2023: Big Brother is watching you: A friend points out that WA are trying to introduce legislation that will consider anyone that is working from home will have their home deemed a workplace, which will then fall under the same state workplace OH & S and right of access by government department and union officials.
13/01/2023: War of
the Worlds #1 – Are we Martians then? https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-mars-may-have-had-the-conditions-for-life-before-earth/
12/01/2023: Don’t miss the rare green comet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DTkxXoQqw
12/01/2023: When
Labour’s William Beveridge ‘invented’ ‘The Welfare State’ in 1942 ‘his goal was
‘the abolition of want’. Labor has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams:
Want has all but been abolished: fewer and fewer want to work, want to marry,
want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity’ (Steyn) ‘The
welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s
money away quietly then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly,’ Thomas
Sowell.
12/01/2023: Where are the greens when you pave over 5,000 square kilometers with solar panels or clear the forest and halt the wind with so many wind turbines – not to mention the god-alone-knows what effects of all the monstrous transmission cables: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/big-solar-goes-big-bust-largest-solar-plant-in-the-world-dies-before-it-can-be-built/
12/01/2023: I notice that the radical
left have been eager to celebrate the death of George Pell – a death no
doubt hastened by their vitriolc witch hunt of a demonstrably innocent man.
Instead, we should be celebrating the life of one of
11/01/2023: "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing poorly." G.K. Chesterton
11/01/2023: Really,
what’s wrong with being a man, manly even? I’m sure the women and children
of the
11/01/2023: Beware of pollies trying to sell pigs in pokes: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/therapeutic-albanese-couldnt-be-clearer-about-the-voice-vote-first-find-out-what-for-later.html BTW: A ‘poke’ (bag) is a cognate of ‘pocket’.
11/01/2023: The poor old elephant – who could have known: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/huge-elephant-dies-suddenly-we-dont-know-why-but-we-know-it-wasnt-that-one-thing/
10/01/2023: When even
the Labor right (does it still have one?) become worried about Defence you
should too: https://spectator.com.au/2023/01/bombers-defence/
10/01/2023: How mandated car seats actually ‘kill’ children. These things and other such social programmes are really depopulation strategies. We have entered an era when only junk people can ‘afford’ to have children. This will not end well: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046
09/01/2023: The
world’s first analogue computer from the genius which was ancient
09/01/2023: Common
sense on tax and money from the great Ronald Reagan: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/homespun-genius-from-the-late-great-ronald-reagan.html
09/01/2023: Della and
I have been ‘green’ all along without even knowing it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/08/new-york-times-there-has-never-been-a-better-time-to-be-short-mate-with-shorter-people-for-a-greener-planet-to-save-the/
09/01/2023: What an interesting idea: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/481990/londoner-solves-20-000-year-ice-age-drawings-mystery?fbclid=IwAR1E84dEqLFCa3nz1NlFzuTxcYkZcYeIhFyV5rnPfnZUMQzNS49-bbdo0FU
08/01/2023: How materials technology will change the world: https://bigthink.com/the-future/cellulose-nanocrystals/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2oBmFknKXHLzGkEJmbCW1mkhuM443bljYUhdo9gCCsXAxkSg5qKeJVu4I#Echobox=1673049074
08/01/2023: The art of ancient Roman concrete: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable?fbclid=IwAR3bjxGoeiGbiZ50ukBD3K4-1VizdPsxuM-b5jIjaDS24Alpyh1QsKDrPVw
08/01/2023: In
1800 there were 3 cities in the world with populations over 1 million. Now
there are 442!
This represents the major transformation of human life. We cannot hope to
understand what makes the average human tick unless we understand their
circumstances. Having lived in a city (reluctantly) for less than 8% of my life
I admit to a deep ignorance. I pretty much hardly even know any 'city
people'.
08/01/2023: When they are not killing birds and bats and producing no net electricity, they burn: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/smoking-ceremony-at-the-local-wind-farm.html
07/01/2023: Get ready: 6G is coming (for you): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230104231812.htm
07/01/2023: Once again zinc (50 mg a day in this case) is shown to be a ‘magic bullet’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/if-only-our-universities-had-studied-this-earlier-zinc-may-have-stopped-40-of-covid-deaths/
07/01/2023: The Chinese Government seem to be rushing a range of science fiction scenarios: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/sellin-chinas-reseach-mosquitos-may-lead-using-mosquitos-bioweapon-delivery-platform/
07/01/2023: According to the satellite records the world is .05 of a degree warmer than the average for the last 44 years. It has varied by around half a degree up/down all that time. This is a dazzling unifomity. Who can really doubt that there is a natural thermostat which keep the temperature so stable? You would have to be a lunatic to believe that profound ‘climate change’ is imminent. The whole movement is just a wicked scam: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/01/uah-global-temperature-update-2022-was-the-7th-warmest-of-44-year-satellite-record/
06/01/2023: More
details of the fate of the
06/01/2023: Parsnips
(and turnips) are very nutritious and
06/01/2023:
Repatriating those
06/01/2023: If
Where is that warming: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/04/the-new-pause-lengthens-100-months-with-no-warming-at-all/
05/01/2023: ‘It is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil’: I’m sure you would not expect that quote from me an old avowed atheist, but one should always garner truth and wisdom from the past, not just throw it all away as so much old junk. Our Judaeo-Christian tradition has many such important lessons which it would be folly to forget. The pleasure to be found in physical work ought not be missed by anyone. It pains me how many folk are bored and indolent, whereas we never find a minute where we share that feeling. All our moments are busy ones.
This is probably my favourite Bible quote. If you are my age you may remember it better as being the words of a ‘Peter, Paul & Mary’ song! Read it in full, maybe even paste it on your wall. It is full of wonderful truths: Ecclesiastes 3:1-13:
3:1 ‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3:3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
3:5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
3:6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
3:7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
3:8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
3:9 What gain have the workers from their toil?
3:10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.
3:11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
3:13 moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.’
05/01/2023: With maybe 20 million
covid infections in a single city
05/01/2023: “If, a militarised, heavily armed Police force decides that it can take the law into its own hands, a great leap forward has been achieved in the progressive totalitarianism to which we are being subjected”. He argues the Qld police unit SERT had the capability to and was set up to arrest and detain just such armed ‘offenders’ as the Trains. Why then are they dead instead of facing trial so that we know the nature of their ‘crimes’? Trial by media is not the semantic equivalent of justice. https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/04/what-happens-in-wieambilla-stays-in-wieambilla/ PS: Comments are interesting.
05/01/2023: Batteryland – another
fantasy green dream like green hydrogen and renewables generally.
Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers as Gulliver observed the crazed inhabitants
of one of Swift’s fantasy lands attempting to do is just not a sensible energy
or economic policy. You just can’t ‘plan’ to spend eight times the entire GDP
on a battery which could never (materially) be built anyway, and likely would
not work if you did. : https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/even-in-battery-fantasy-dreams-the-costs-dont-make-sense/
04/01/2023: 1912 – what was the world
like exactly 100 years ago? http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/12/december-31-1912.html
04/01/2023: Add this to the ‘smart switch on your electricity meter. Too many nasty things can be done to your freedom with the flick of a switch: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/big-brother-will-watch-drive-disgusting-infrastructure-bill-installs-kill-switches-new-vehicles-turns-america-police-state/
04/01/2023: Some more good news
(maybe) – extinction rebellion quits: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/extinction-rebellion-quits-realizes-being-attention-seeking-vandals-isnt-winning/
04/01/2023: Home energy savings largely a sham. I would have thought so too as people build ever larger MacMansions and architects go for two-storey high rooms, oceans of glass and the like. The average weatherboard, timber floored home of the 1950s (which had proper ventilation for human health amongst other advantages - no strange ‘peanut’ allergies and the like back then) was half the size, and had ‘living’ rooms of approx 10-15 square metres (easy to heat) and no cooling of any sort, clearly used less than half the electricity of the ‘modern’ monstrosities. Goodness knows how we even survived the houses we built in the past! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/01/home-insulation-makes-little-difference-to-energy-consumption-new-study/
03/01/2023: Love conquers all – a good news story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64125531
03/01/2023: A plant which gave up photosynthesis: https://www.sciencealert.com/ethereal-new-plant-species-doesnt-use-photosynthesis-its-found-something-sneakier
03/01/2023: The mother of ‘conspiracy theories’ debunked: https://spectator.com.au/2023/01/lee-harvey-oswald-killed-jfk/
03/01/2023: No doubt all those folk
who waited an hour or two to recharge their EVs over the holiday period will be
rushing out to buy another one and advising their friends to do the same.
Likewise the folks in
02/01/2023: Suppose you wanted to ditch Google Play Store: https://www.popsci.com/diy/f-droid-download/
02/01/2023: Just in case you need an ice age, here’s a great idea – and they’re implementing it without any discussion at all: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/go-wrong-startup-releases-particles-atmosphere-stop-climate-change/
02/01/2023: We can apparently look
forward to blackouts which last several days (if we continue to follow
02/01/2023: A great essay Alexandra: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/the-crimes-of-eco-fascism/
01/01/2023: Zpacks Arc Haul Ultra: I have been a fan of Joe Valesko’s Zpacks for nearly twenty years – back when he was just a lad sewing all the packs himself. We have kept in touch. I have tried many of his products as they became available and generally promoted them.
I doubt there has been any single person who has ‘pushed the envelope’ of the ultralight revolution quite as much as Joe. His firm has grown like topsy, which is a credit to him and I hope doesn’t give him too much stress with the responsibility of having to care for so many people and do so much work. I trust there is still plenty of time for family and for hiking.
I have a friend whose business grew so big he eventually had to sell it as it was making his life impossible. All he really wanted was to be like Maugham’s ‘The Verger’ – to have a very modest living. If you haven’t read the story, now is the time to do so. If you don’t read, you can watch it here. I’m afraid such modest ambitions are what I have stuck with since I first read the story in the sixth grade. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/12/31/zpacks-arc-haul-ultra/
01/01/2023: Instead of queueing from
10:00am to watch ‘pretty lights’ in the sky at midnight before going home to bed
I’m afraid we went to bed at 10:00 pm and missed New Year altogether, our 52nd
together actually. I really can’t believe that half a billion people ‘tuned
in’ to watch the
01/01/2023: A very powerful and
insightful essay - Use These Five Easy Tricks to Identify the Marxist in the
Room: https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/12/30/use-these-five-easy-tricks-to-identify-the-marxist-in-the-room-n1657219
01/01/2023: It is horrifying that
children could be legally mutilated (castrated) by one parent against the
31/12/2022: Bird-window collisions. I
would have expected some more positive recommendations. On old-style
windows with fly-screens (in my experience) they almost
31/12/2022: Time to ditch those ‘green’ investments: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/ouch-environmental-investors-lost-22-in-a-year-when-energy-investors-made-54-gains/
31/12/2022: It is fairly clear that
the MRNA shots are not working but I would like more information about the
efficacy of the conventional vaccines. I am seriously considering a booster of
Novavax which seems particularly efficacious. I still have no particular
desire to die from covid (if it can be prevented) though I
31/12/2022: The Faux Urgency of The Climate Crisis Is Giving Us No Time or Space To Build A Secure Energy Future. Some advice from one of the world’s pre-eminent climate scientists: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/28/the-faux-urgency-of-the-climate-crisis-is-giving-us-no-time-or-space-to-build-a-secure-energy-future/
30/12/2022: The long (geological) view of climate change: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/blame-jacinta/
30/12/2022: Worrying. Any excuse to increase the tyranny we now live under: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/tyranny-aussie-cops-demand-public-rat-neighbors-anti-government-believe-covid-19-conspiracy-theories/
Qld Police have also clearly been peddling
a pack of lies about the Trains (who I admit might not have been exactly
angels – who is?) For example the ‘new’ excuse for the police
30/12/2022: The ‘
30/12/2022: German health minister says
climate change travel restrictions and prohibited behaviour will be required: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1605820678585958401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1605820678585958401%7Ctwgr%5E00bb104ca66591f801b94ba6d508d53ae91796d9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenfreepress.com%2Fbreaking%2Feco-dictatorship-coming-your-way%2F
Why not bathe once a week instead? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/28/germanys-zdf-public-television-suggests-bathing-once-a-week-would-be-beneficial/
29/12/2022: Life will find a way: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/bin-chickens-chow-down-on-cane-toads/
29/12/2022: The Nord Stream mystery: https://dnyuz.com/2022/12/26/in-nord-stream-mystery-baltic-seabed-provides-a-nearly-ideal-crime-scene/
29/12/2022: When the police are useless (What else?) Well done girls: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/mothers-intuition-how-2-indiana-moms-capture-suspect-rescue-missing-ohio-baby-kason-thomas
29/12/2022: Interesting: Men are no longer going to Uni – I suspect they are getting real jobs with real pay. Remember how they (similarly) quit being teachers a decade or two ago - and schools declined horribly? I bet they are all ‘hiding out’ in the private sector on better wages: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/victor-davis-hanson-asks-are-universities-doomed/
27/12/2022: Will ChatGPT replace you? It will certainly write your Uni/school essays anyway and may (I hope) mean that written exams become once again compulsory. I am tired of visiting a doctor (for example) who clearly isn’t, but whose exams were obviously all done by someone else. I at least can still tell the difference, but some of these AIs are becoming devilishly clever: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/chatgpt-has-artificial-intelligence-arrived-will-it-crush-google-or-just-become-google-2-0/
27/12/2022: So many Christian mysteries - not least Jesus’s brothers and sisters: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/brother-where-art-thou/
27/12/2022: Strange how minds work. I too have always been dubious about the ubiquity of evil, but it led me to question the existence of God rather than move towards him: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/rush-limbaughs-brother-reveals-key-reality-led-skepticism-christian-faith/
27/12/2022: Before they began their
wonderful ‘experiment with democracy’ under the communist terrorist Mandela
What an awful place it has become: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/holiday-hope-message-south-african-farm-attack-survivor-mariandra/
26/12/2022: Just worrying whether this is true: https://scitechdaily.com/common-sweetener-linked-with-anxiety-in-startling-new-research/
26/12/2022: The good news is that the world is not ending: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/22/the-world-is-not-ending-bjorn-lomborg-and-jordan-peterson/
26/12/2022: Is Santa Claus a communist? https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/12/10630768/
26/12/2022: Anyway, Peace on Earth: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/bing-crosby-and-david-bowie-sing-peace-on-earth/
25/12/2022: Ants for Xmas: Della: “So while everyone else is enjoying Christmas Eve, I have been enjoying a novel experiment. In preparation for our family Christmas celebration on Boxing Day I figured that people might not notice the rampant weed growth in my garden if I strategically pulled out the very biggest of the weeds. After only the first barrow-load I discovered this humongous bull-ant nest where I am sure none existed last autumn (For reference, the ant in the picture is on a flag-iris leaf).
I immediately Googled bull-ant nest eradication, and was fascinated to read that ants will not cross a chalk line drawn on a pavement as it interferes with their pheromones.
Ever the scientist, Steve immediately went out to the verandah, grabbed the kids’ playground chalk and drew a firm line in the middle of a sugar-ant trail. Amazingly, the ants immediately baulked at the line, turning around and running back the other way. Sadly the effect only lasted about 3 minutes: When Steve drew a further line that prevented entry to their nest, they baulked initially and then pushed on through.
Now I know that drinking a glass of prosecco is more fun than watching ants on Christmas Eve, but believe me, you can do both! Meanwhile, if you have any worthwhile tips on how to kill my unwelcome monster ants, let me know!
Merry Christmas everyone.”
Just a BTW: A single application of Brunnings Wasp & Ant Dust containing 10g/kg Permethrin made them disappear overnight! (likewise Jumping Jacks).
25/12/2022: Oh No: https://babylonbee.com/news/santas-sleigh-mistakenly-shot-down-by-ukrainian-missile
25/12/2022: Before you commit to the idea that Christmas is not well, Christian, maybe you should read these: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/24/guest-post-mother-lode-a-pagan-christmas/ & https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nazis-fought-original-war-christmas-180961513/
25/12/2022: “Experts” Say Not To Joke About Cold Weather And Global Warming: Meanwhile: https://americandigest.org/the-gift-of-the-walmagi/
25/12/2022: The future of human hibernation: https://phys.org/news/2022-12-successful-hypothermia-nonhuman-primate-paves.html
24/12/2022: Is death the end? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42216404/is-death-revesible/
24/12/2022: You would have to be a fool to think that the government isn’t always telling lies. Some examples: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-12-21-you-must-assume-that-all-information-put-out-by-our-government-is-corrupt
24/12/2022: McDonalds opens its first automated restaurant. This (and unemployment) is what you get when you try to control wages (and prices): https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/video-from-first-robot-mcdonalds/
24/12/2022: With 240 people dying per day just now in Oz, maybe a booster dose of Novavax would be a good idea: https://newatlas.com/science/novavax-covid19-vaccine-omicron-booster/
23/12/2022: This can’t be true - surely there is only one movie plot: https://babylonbee.com/news/hallmark-researchers-say-they-are-close-to-developing-a-second-movie-plot
23/12/2022: The last Nazi war criminal to be convicted? https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/nazi-secretary-of-evil-97-convicted-by-german-court/
23/12/2022: If we did not have an Elon Musk we would have to invent him – maybe there is hope for free speech yet: https://richardsonpost.com/bruce-thornton/29810/elon-musk-instigating-journalism/
23/12/2022: Meanwhile there are more polar bears than at any time in 60 years: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-perpetually-endangered-polar-bears-are-doing-great/
21/12/2022: An astonishing underwater megalith teaches us how little really we know about the past: https://tocharus.substack.com/p/stone-megalith-at-the-bottom-of-the
21/12/2022: Osteoarthritis news - I definitely need this (and apparently you can get a script even if you don’t have Diabetes – this stuff also adds years to one’s life expectancy): https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/researchers-call-for-trial-of-metformin-as-potential-treatment-for-osteoarthritis/news-story/f5f22a8625d69d1ac3e5e15cf67fc754
21/12/2022: “It’s just a giant land and power grab by the UN, which has just finished another meeting for “Biodiversity.” Do you remember voting for this ‘world government’? Long since time we stopped handing them money and power, which is all they want after all: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/supercomputer-prophesy-of-the-sixth-mass-extinction-coming-like-an-asteroid-is-a-un-land-grab/
21/12/2022: Destroying capitalism from within: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/13-us-states-warn-that-monster-funds-are-buying-up-public-utilities/
19/12/2022: A Timely Reminder from Neil Oliver about the Importance of Christmas –and its enemies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-axg5CJqQ&t=722s
19/12/2022: Just how secure is our government: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-18/ato-tax-hacked-via-mygov-services-australia-exploit/101781656?fbclid=IwAR30ypKyqQ9E_g70kegnpkQMxYDMkBi8Rx36ATikkohofAUnnnClhDZv_fg
19/12/2022: Remember this (before it
is too late): “Those who would give up
essential
19/12/2022: Big Brother is alive and well in NZ. If you don’t agree with the government you’re a terrorist: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/new-zealand-guide-turn-potential-terrorists-opposing-government-policies-including-covid-measures/
18/12/2022: The Sheep That Lambs in Litters: This year’s cohort of our amazing Finnsheep are about ready to go to their ‘forever homes’. We were just shearing their dams and sires yesterday and crutching all the lambs, some of whom are waiting their turn here:
They have grown approx 1” of wool per
Pure Finnsheep are the world’s most fertile sheep normally having 3-4 lambs. This fertility is carried on around six genes so that half Finns inherit (roughly) half of it, meaning that you can expect half and even quarter Finns to basically always have twins. They are also (unsually) a medium-fine longwool breed which means that they can also be used to improve the length and quality of your wool.
They were keen to get back into the paddock:
They look so much cleaner after they are shorn:
You can contact us here: http://www.finnsheep.com/ if you are interested in having some for Xmas.
18/12/2022: It really is almost certain that the vaccines caused the cases of myocarditis we have been seeing. I have long since lost hope that our masters will ever apologise for or even acknowledge the wrongs they have done us in the past: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/a-small-smoking-gun-study-shows-covid-vaccination-likely-led-to-fatal-myocarditis/
18/12/2022: Just another move towards
a (panopticon) dictatorship: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/pandoras-box-of-genes-orwells-dna-databases/
18/12/2022: The “
16/12/2022: A ‘Train’ wreck that
looks more and more like
I know I was astonished (and alarmed) during the first covid lockdown to have a young man tap on the window not 2’ away from me where I was sitting at my desk after 11:00pm one night. Our house is 100 metres off the road. He had climbed over our locked gate and tiptoed up our drive looking (he said) for a lost puppy! As this was the night after there had been a stolen car doing burn-outs on the road outside (we live on a quiet rural property) and was subsequent to the recent (still unsolved) brutalisation and murder of an elderly farmer locally under similar circumstances, I had every reason to be alarmed. I told him (through the window) that he was lucky I was deaf and had not heard him coming – else he might have well expected to be greeted by a shotgun blast! He was young and stupid and had just not thought (there actually was a puppy, but not at our house) – somewhat like the four (young) policemen in this case, I suspect.
‘Civil liberties’ people also often hold to the centuries-old right to
freely own arms for their protection and defence (including against onerous or
unjust governments – a significant part of the US constitution after all, and
therefore mainstream) which only really began to be circumscribed in
Many of these views were hard-won in the English-speaking world by such things as the Peasants’ Revolt, Magna Carta, the American War of Independence, Eureka Stockade etc – so it is not a new or weird conspiracy theory, whacko notion. It has a long and honourable tradition indeed richly fertilised by the blood of patriots. Not so long ago (circa 1980) in accordance with these traditions Victorian citizens still enjoyed pretty much an untramelled right to own firearms yet police were not permitted to have them, nor would they then have entered private property without permission unless investigating a crime – so presumably with a search warrant – likewise in NZ and many other jurisdictions. We had a different perspective of the role of the police back then, maybe a better one.
Increasingly our society has moved more and more to a ‘police state’ where
the citizens are incredibly trammeled (in contrast to just such a recent past),
only permitted to have certain circumscribed ‘rights’ , these ‘rights’ being
conferred or withheld by the state and enforced (or removed) by an armed and
belligerent police force – as during the covid lockdowns. Previously these
rights were considered inalienable, ie conferred by birth/existence (not the
state) and it was deemed reasonable to resist efforts by an unjust state to
remove or restrict them.
It also seems that all sorts of other ‘rights’ which they previously enjoyed had been removed (quite possible illegally after all – this has yet to be tested in court) for example using the so-called ‘covid pandemic’ as a pretext. Their right to earn a living, socialize, move around, ‘own’ their own body, & etc. Nathaniel may even have thought his heart attack was caused by his (mandated) covid vaccine. There is some evidence for this view after all. It is (unfortunately) only a simple (perhaps paranoid) step to thinking that there is a ‘plan’ to depopulate the world. The death toll has been rising post-vaccine. The bans which are being implemented here and there on nitrogen feriliser do seem aimed at decreasing the world’s food supply which can clearly only have one consequence, fewer people fed. These notions may be alarmist or eccentric, but they are not mad or evil.
Such events may well have helped to fuel a paranoid view of society’s intentions towards them such that when they then ‘perceived’ a contingent of armed police ‘storming’ over their front fence as they maybe had no right to do, they felt they had to act in the way they did perhaps because they feared for their lives against such a seeming frightening armed trespass. Who knows? In many jurisdictions you do have a right to shoot a trespasser if you fear for your life. This is well-known, surely to police?
All we will have from here on out is a demonisation of this family of
seeming law-abiding, religious, peaceable, middle-class school principals ie
the Trains as ‘murderers’, overlooking the fact that they too were murdered,
but by state-sanctioned murder, so I guess that’s all right – until it happens
to you or yours? The case is very worrying and I doubt we will ever learn the
‘truth’ about it any more than we will about
One further point about people being shot dead (both the police and the Trains). I do not believe that they should have shot the police even if they had the legal right to do so – which for all I know they might have had. Entering past a locked gate with signage certainly sounds like ‘break and enter’ to me, whoever you are. I have read legal opinion that public officials do not have legal/constitutional ‘right of entry’ in such cases, no crime having been committed. I do not have the legal expertise to know.
But neither do I think police should shoot people dead unless there is
absolutely no other alternative. Given that the Trains could presumably be
contained in the area, there should (reasonably) be no limit to the time you
should spend ‘talking’ them down/out. The cost in money is quite different to
the cost in lives. Neither do we have a death penalty anywhere in
The final moments of the Train siege reveal that police (Presumably using
thermal imaging , night vision, telescopic sights, body armor etc)
16/12/2022: Musk’s Twitter revelations now undeniably prove that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. This can no longer be painted as a ‘conspiracy theory’. This is bold hard fact. It (and the rigged 2022 election) need to be undone/redone. The ‘greatest democracy in the world,’, ‘the home of the Free’ cannot be allowed to continue as a petty dictatorship: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/rigged/
16/12/2022: It may sound sexist (notice this was also written by a woman) but this is how election demographics are currently working. And please note, things are being decided by such ‘educated’ folks (who likely could not even change a tap washer) which are completely beyond their ‘expertise’ and which will impact all of us more or less forever – such as the destruction of our energy system: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/09/wokey-women/#more-6520
16/12/2022: For example, About that energy storage pipe dream, “Here’s what tells you all you need to know: not only is there no working demonstration project anywhere in the world of the wind/solar/storage energy system, but there is none under construction and none even proposed. Instead, the proponents’ idea is that your entire state or country is to be the guinea pig for their dreams.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/03/the-manhattan-contrarian-energy-storage-paper-has-arrived/
15/12/2022: MH370: I thought this possibility was pretty obvious at the time. I am astonished that it has not been explored up to now: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/im-an-mh370-expert-i-know-plane-was-deliberately-downed-by-pilot/news-story/340ecc83e8afd61ccb9845a0cf2d9f3d
15/12/2022: A new Jan 6th deadline. Interesting. Maybe Trump will be back, and sooner than we might expect: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/tim-canova-supreme-court-considers-case-seeking-overturn-2020-presidential-election/
15/12/2022: A triumph of common sense over climate catastrophism – imagine if people had access to real science how few would be convinced ‘the end is nigh’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/despite-ostracism-namecalling-and-billions-of-dollars-nearly-4-in-10-globally-are-climate-skeptics/
15/12/2022:
14/12/2022: “Climate
activists and politicians constantly tell us electric cars are cleaner, cheaper
and better. Many countries, including
14/12/2022: I’m afraid Victor David
Hanson is right, that our society more and more resembles a decaying
14/12/2022: Handing Higgins millions of our money (behind closed doors) is probably the most unjust act I have seen from an Australian Government recently – where is all the dough for women who have been proven to have actually been raped? She may have deserved compensation if a case had been proved, but where is the justice for Lehrmann who is simply assumed to be a rapist without proof? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/brittany-higgins-secures-multimillion-dollar-taxpayerfunded-compensation-deal/news-story/071b83448718a158e6ff9178d3d010eb & https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-the-questionable-price-of-political-payouts/news-story/6f4cbc66037f7c0da89c3107cf3cc2c6
14/12/2022: The
13/12/2022:
13/12/2022: Plan Melbourne & Dan intend to lock you up in your neighbourhood and forbid you to go more than a 20 minute walk away from home: https://youtu.be/iw-P37Fll3Q
13/12/2022: The West did not colonise, they civilized: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fnuclear-fusion-lawrence-livermore-laboratory-b2243247.html
13/12/2022: Once, when someone
suggested a pie in the sky proposal people used to say, ‘Do the maths’.
Increasingly few people can do maths at all. Here in
12/12/2022: Sir Roger Penrose has always produced astounding ideas but his latest thoughts about evidence of past universes (and the possibility oif communicating with them) and thoughts about the ‘quantum’ nature of consciousness are wonderfully liberating: https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2020/10/14/sir-roger-penrose-comments-on-the-universes-before-our-own/
12/12/2022: All about humans and fire – how fascinating: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-road-to-metallurgy-fire-and-rocks
12/12/2022: The future of childbirth – coming to you soon: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/german-molecular-biologist-unveils-concept-worlds-first-artificial-womb-facility-can-incubate-30000-lab-grown-babies-year-video/
12/12/2022: The coldest summer in Australia ever in Oz and in the Northern Hemisphere pretty much the coldest all of my (long) life yet no warnings of an imminent Ice Age from the climate freaks which is after all the most likely climate outcome after 6-8000 years now oif falling temperatures: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/the-coldest-summer-day-in-australia-and-nobody-notices/
11/12/2022: Should we revive epic
poetry? https://tocharus.substack.com/p/why-epic-poetry-will-never-die
11/12/2022: When the money tree starts to wither and die: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/vanguard-abandons-net-zero-climate-finance-monster-group/
11/12/2022: The FBI is an unconstitutional unelected body maybe meant to be a police force, but not a government – what went wrong? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/the-united-states-of-the-fbi/
11/12/2022: Just throw the baby under the bus – there is no sane plan for achieving ‘net zero’ at all let alone in the time frame that its advocates envisage. Meanwhile everything else just falls apart. This is a recipe for nothing other than economic disaster: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/10/looking-for-the-official-party-line-on-energy-storage/
10/12/2022: The last dambuster passes: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/12/the-last-dambuster-sqn-ldr-george-johnny-johnson-mbe-dfm-has-died-per-adua-ad-astra-lest-we-forget.html
10/12/2022: When ‘enough’ is too much: https://moonbattery.com/teachers-continue-to-groom-small-children/
10/12/2022: Inventing the dead – how the aboriginal ‘grievance industry’ simply cooked up 100,000 murdered blacks from a record of absolutely none: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2022/12/the-lying-art-of-truth-telling/
Another way to assess this is to ask,
‘Where are the medals’? Those C19th folks were particularly fond of issuing
medals for every tiny military engagement, yet there are absolutely none
devoted to these ‘frontier wars’ in
This is an indication of how bad this ‘race politics’ is likely to get: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/parks-australia-when-bureaucracy-turns-racist/
10/12/2022: Who’d have thought:
Elephants flourishing in
09/12/2022: The invisibility cloak that wasn’t: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88q3gk/chinese-students-invent-invisibility-cloak
09/12/2022: Be very sure: What they are doing in Oxfordshire is the future the left have planned for you: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/oxfordshire-council-to-trial-a-climate-lockdown-starting-2024/
09/12/2022: The long-term implications of MRNA technology read like science fiction, “The vaccine is incredibly risky, and basically, it’s achieving its goal. If the goal was to reduce the world’s population, it’s working.”: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dr-mccullough-mrna-from-covid-vax-transfers-from-jabbed-to-unjabbed-changing-human-genome/
09/12/2022: If we
want to replace coal-fired power stations (Why?) the only further question is
what type of nuclear power plant to build. The conventional
The WEF thinks we should leap right in to hydrogen-boron fusion (which does not yet exist) just like they think we should jump into ‘green hydrogen’ and other pie in the sky schemes: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/07/world-economic-forum-hydrogen-boron-nuclear-fusion-anticipated-by-2030/
08/12/2022: Soon we won’t be able to see the sky because we talk to the neighbour on the mobile phone: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8m4/a-huge-satellite-is-officially-one-of-the-brightest-objects-in-the-sky-astronomers-warn
08/12/2022: ‘Green’ hydrogen is likely to be the most expensive fuel you have ever heard about (if it is even possible). Around ten times the current cost of fuel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/05/energy-storage-report-hydrogen-as-an-alternative-to-batteries/
08/12/2022: Scruton on Foucault – do people even know anymore where the great undermining of thought that exemplifies everything the left advocates actually came from? Foucault and Derrida were the demons behind it, but with a long history stretching back though Marx and Hegel. Once university was about examining and critiquing all such ideas. Now it is about accepting them wholesale: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/thought-for-the-day-scruton-on-foucault.php https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/thought-for-the-day-scruton-on-foucault.php
08/12/2022: Monty Python had a better take on all this: The Philosophers’ Football Match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQx8IUcIzc
07/12/2022: New Pack Suspension System: For years I have been quite dissatisfied with backpack straps. They place a quite unnecessary and undue strain on a small area of the shoulders. It seems to me that for horses this problem was solved back in circa the C14th with the invention of the horse collar and associated hardware to allow a horse to pull a heavy load without destroying the horse.
Most pack manufacturers have decided that 'transferring the load' (somehow) to the hips via a hip belt is the solution. It is not. That 'solution' only acts (rather like other forms of torture such as foot binding to transfer the problem elsewhere without solving it at all. A hip belt restricts movement and comfort in just a different sort of way, that is all. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/12/06/new-pack-suspension-system/
07/12/2022: “So to date, we’re spending twenty-three dollars for each gallon of gasoline saved … economic suicide…It’s nothing but a money-transfer scam to benefit the wealthy”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/06/the-mirage-of-electric-vehicles/
Hard to believe that this post is viewed by Facebook and Norton as about 'Violence'. What a weird world. And yet we are told AI contains the word, 'Intelligence"!
07/12/2022: Albanese
(& Andrews) won despite the lowest Labor vote since 1934. This is true.
Just let that sink in for a moment.Then ask yourself what sort of government we
would have if there had not been all sorts of jiggery-pokery with the electoral
system (over time) to ensure such a corruption of democracy and the people’s
will. Some of them set (in stone) in the constitution even, such as the awfully
undemocratic Senate ‘system’ where a vote in
07/12/2022: Bruce
Lehrmann’s quandary is another ‘Winslow Boy’ case. There is now to
mechanism whereby he can clear his (good) name. Such a parlous state of affairs
should
06/12/2022: “We are this season’s people. We are all the people there are, this season. If we blow it, it’s blown.” Schlomo Carlebach
06/12/2022: BTW: Have you noticed how everyone supports the Chinese anti covid lockdowns now? Yet not so long ago it was all, ‘Let’s stand with (Chinese) Dan’.
06/12/2022: Dark patterns – another subliminal trick: https://engage.uchicago.edu/rs/250-CQH-936/images/FY23-Fall-HL-virtual-1-LIP-Bonus-Content.pdf?s_src=N14808&mkt_tok=MjUwLUNRSC05MzYAAAGIcow7LM7CBRWkqiDmuNH0xxXKkD648GDLM9mRhpfEhkSwg3XSQbOFm2YMBPOd_DtEel-na3-PBMo3j22te4twYixXKDBT75xQFFLo8F1Yvr4W
06/12/2022: The science is settled folks – Richard Lindzen is arguably the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist, and he calls b------t. The correlation with CO2 is just not there: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/mit-climate-scientist-dr-richard-lindzen-rejects-climate-change-as-a-quasi-religious-movement-predicated-on-an-absurd-scientific-narrative/
Should you want to know more about ‘real science’ perhaps you should just check out one week’s review from the Science and Environmental Policy Project founded by Prof Fred Singer who was definitely the pre-eminent world climate scientist: http://www.sepp.org/twtwfiles/2022/TWTW%2012-03-22.pdf
05/12/2022: Good dog
05/12/2022: Did Monet invent impressionism with a single painting? You have to admit it was a pretty good one anyway: https://mymodernmet.com/claude-monet-impression-sunrise/
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.” — Keats
05/12/2022: Looks
like in
05/12/2022: Why do the left want to shut down the food supply? Is this another ‘Holodomor’? https://issuesinsights.com/2022/12/02/the-elites-war-on-food/
04/12/2022: Some progress on Alzheimers at least: https://scitechdaily.com/positive-clinical-results-for-alzheimers-amyloid-clearing-drug-lecanemab-poised-for-fda-approval/ & https://newatlas.com/medical/alzheimers-disease-root-cause-axon-swelling/
04/12/2022: The evil
that Higgins and her woke feminist cronies have done to an innocent man
(who will
04/12/2022: You should certainly be able to chose voluntary assisted dying to end your suffering, but no-one should be able to force your decision: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/voluntary-assisted-dying-is-back-on-the-agenda/
04/12/2022: The WEF, UN, (ie the Greens and Left) want you locked in a very small area indeed in your suburb. Everything that is being implemented is aimed at that. Think about the move to electric cars, locking up more and more land in ‘National Parks’ (which you will be unable to visit), etc, etc. Let’s start to fight back people: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/oxford-2024-climate-lockdowns-start-you-will-be-tracked-and-trapped-in-your-suburb-and-happy-about-it/
03/12/2022: I don’t
suppose this is sexism: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/42520
In the meantime, did you realize that whites are now officially a minority in
the three largest
03/12/2022: Vic Libs are just crazy – they are set to chose someone as leader who is even more left-wing than Guy: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/john-pesutto-tipped-to-be-next-liberal-party-leader/news-story/7cd4bb0f9e0ffbb941da8cd85e192925
03/12/2022: Long since time we stopped funding these communists at the UN – who needs an unelected government anyway. When was the last time you voted in a UN election?: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/un-shakedown-threats-to-list-healthy-reef-as-in-danger-just-a-way-to-extort-climate-money/
03/12/2022: Net Zero is destroying the European economy. Dutton must repudiate this nonsense soon: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/europes-renewable-wonderland-now-cant-make-solar-wind-batteries-or-evs/
Matt Ridley’s
explanation of the
Meanwhile Swiss look to ban use of electric cars over the winter to save energy: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/12/01/swiss-look-to-ban-use-of-electric-cars-over-the-winter-to-save-energy-n514785
02/12/2022: Vale the ‘last’ Rat of Tobruk. Both my father’s brother, Basil and Della’s father Bill also served in the North African campaign. How time flies. Seems like only yesterday we were celebrating their 70th or 80th birthdays. But soon even we children of the ‘Rats’ and other heroes who ‘saved the world for democracy’ will be gone too. Unfortunately and increasingly we are finding that their efforts were not permanently successful. For a time after WW2 freedom increased, then after about 1975 it moved into decline once more. Since then the world has been falling further into a kind of dictatorship maybe more successful and omnipresent than anything Hitler and Tojo (even Stalin) envisaged and this process is accelerating. The current generation will have to rise to the challenge of fighting this evil. My time is just about done, yet I have struggled to oppose the rise of state control all my life too: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11480009/Ernie-Walker-106-passes-away-surviving-NSW-soldier-infamous-Rats-Tobruk-battle.html
02/12/2022: Yes! https://babylonbee.com/news/trans-furry-named-best-in-show-at-national-dog-show
02/12/2022: I agree witht this guy that the climate cult is ‘ultimately doomed’ because its proposals cannot possibly work but it can do a lot of harm before it ultimately fails just as Islam has been doing for the last 1500 years even though clearly it too is a false religion: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/30/dont-be-so-sure-that-the-climate-extremists-have-won/
02/12/2022: Makes no sense to me anyway but I am not a voyeur. I prefer to do things than watch them: https://neveryetmelted.com/2022/11/28/the-most-boring-game/
01/12/2022: The largest squid weigh half a tonne and live in the deep ocean. Much smaller cephalopods have been shown to be intelligent. Is SETI looking in the wrong place? Should we be making efforts to establish communication with these guys? https://www.livescience.com/what-is-largest-squid
01/12/2022: An important lesson from Willis Eschenbach today, (couldn’t agree more), “I learned early about the importance of sharp tools. My second real job, at 13 years of age for $0.30 per hour ($3.00 per hour in 2022 dollars), was digging out a foundation for a new house with a pick and a shovel. And looking back, I was probably worth about that much per hour.
In those halcyon pre-PC days, working with a shovel was called “Playing the Swedish banjo”. Here’s a recent picture of me doing that very thing:
And I’ve played the Swedish banjo for more reasonable wages a number of times since I was 13.
Perhaps as a result of my work history, I divide folks into three groups:
- Those who have used a shovel.
- Those who have made money with a shovel.
- Those who have sharpened a shovel.”
01/12/2022: You thought this could never happen: https://unherd.com/2022/11/a-biostate-wont-cure-the-west/
01/12/2022: Apple is conspiring with the communist dictatorship to lock down the Chinese people. Ditch your iphone now: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/apple-helps-communist-china-suppressing-protests-disabling-airdrop-feature-just-weeks-protests/
30/11/2022: Next time you get the sniffles just slip a banana up your nose: https://scitechdaily.com/new-banana-derived-therapy-is-effective-against-all-known-coronaviruses-and-flu-strains/
30/11/2022: The Tech giants just hate free speech: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/its-war-apple-moves-against-twitter-helps-ccp-so-musk-vows-to-air-skeletons-and-maybe-move-into-smartphones/
30/11/2022: Dutch
Government to Shut Down 3,000 Farms to Comply with Global Warming Goals: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/dutch-government-shut-3000-farms-comply-global-warming-goals/
30/11/2022: Remember when there was not going to be any more snow – is this year a ‘tipping point’ towards the next ice age? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/28/the-end-of-snow-again/
29/11/2022: Thanks for that Spot: https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/a-new-study-says-time-spent-with-dogs-increases-brain-activity-in-the-prefrontal-cortex-64385?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
29/11/2022: The Libs
need to grow a couple. You have to stand for something (except ‘woke’).
Dutton, hurry up and reject the ‘Voice’,
Net Zero, Climate Change, Renewables, etc, etc. You will
29/11/2022: This is a truly horrifying development: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/irish-government-criminalize-hate-speech-effectively-silencing-hold-different-opinions-penalty-5-years-imprisonment/
29/11/2022: Climate change makes floods less severe: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/climate-change-apparently-makes-floods-less-severe/
28/11/2022: A Tall Tail: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/baby-girl-born-perfectly-normal-except-for-extremely-rare-tail/news-story/24807183d7e8e42a9ab1ebc47b077cd0
28/11/2022: I do support people’s ‘right to die’ but encouraging it and making it a spectator sport is another thing altogether: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/sick-canadian-clothing-line-la-maison-simons-exploits-young-womans-euthanasia-market-products-video/
28/11/2022: Will you be a ‘super-ager’? https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F11%2F26%2Fhealth%2Fsuperager-secrets-good-memory-wellness%2Findex.html
28/11/2022: Exactly, changes in CO2 mirror nothing which actually occurs in earth’s climate. Take sea ice for example: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/27/sea-ice-mysteries/
27/11/2022: Don’t try to find love online: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/online-love-gone-bad-peruvian-medical-student-lured-mexican-woman-visit-killed-harvested-organs-posting-video-tiktok/
27/11/2022: Duh! Why we should all have galvanized iron rooves. Another point is that if it is hotter insode the house this is because the roof absorbed more heat. That is we have changed the albedo (reflectivity) of our cities so that they absorb much more heat from the sun. It is little wonder then that they ‘appear’’ hotter in BOM/CSIRO data especially when the thermometers measuring this have moved to the city airports: https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-the-colour-of-your-roof-matters_4882907.html
27/11/2022: So now we know: Astra Zenica and Novavax were enormously safer. Glad that’s what we insisted on them for ourselves: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11464097/Covid-Australia-2022-Teen-misses-HSC-pericarditis-jab-reaction-cardiologist-issues-warning.html
27/11/2022: More power to computer models. By the time we get to COP100 there will be over 400,000 attendees! That’s a lot of jet planes, steak and lobsters to produce a huge amount of hot air – why building a trough works: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/23/the-future-of-cops/
26/11/2022: Titanaboa: Thank goodness we do not still have these guys in the back garden: https://www.thoughtco.com/titanoboa-worlds-biggest-prehistoric-snake-1093334
26/11/2022: How
extreme the WEF is - Extraordinary that anyone would think the communist
Chinese dictatorship was a ‘role model’: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/the_mask_is_off_wefs_klaus_schwab_declares_china_a_role_model.html
26/11/2022: Brown coal-fired electricity still only costs 4 cents a kilowatt hour. If you had the choice, don’t you think you would choose that over this ‘renewables’ mess which sees prices of $200 per kilowatt hour? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/shh-despite-a-bloodbath-quarter-for-electricity-prices-hated-brown-coal-still-sells-at-just-4c-per-kwh/
26/11/2022: You just can’t imagine that this wasn’t already the law everywhere: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/italians-who-refuse-job-offers-will-have-social-benefits-revoked-meloni-warns
25/11/2022: End the green b------t. Hand Dan the Can on Saturday.
25/11/2022: I’m sure the ‘little green men’ are worried about this too: Astrobiologists concerned about imperialistic consequences of galactic exploration: https://www.thecollegefix.com/astrobiologists-concerned-about-imperialistic-consequences-of-galactic-exploration/
25/11/2022: Back when the pandemic started I said I did not want a dollar wasted trying to ‘save’ me (being in the ‘elderly’ group who were most likely to die). I’m sure many/most of my peers felt the same. I/we certainly did not want others to die for me, but that is what seems to be happening with the vaccine deaths amongt the young who would not have died from the disease. Many more deaths overall could have been prevented and more cheaply – as I said at the time) by utilisng cheap ‘medicines such as Vitamin D, Zinc and Ivermectin: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/in-south-australia-last-year-suddenly-lots-of-young-adults-went-to-hospital-with-cardiac-issues/ & https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/covid-2022-here-comes-the-big-kill
25/11/2022: CSIRO and
BOM unfit for purpose. Contrary to their hysterical ‘findings’ there has
been no warming in
24/11/2022: DIY Crampons Equals 4WD Boots: I have had a number of falls and am still suffering from a sore (almost dislocated) shoulder and similarly sprained wrist but there is still much work to do. So recently I bought (from a local Bolt shop) some 15mm hex-headed self-tapping screws. These only came in stainless steel so were fairly dear at $20 per 100, but for this purpose you only need perhaps 20, so it will not break the bank. You can screw them directly into the soles of your boots (i used an electric drill) in suitable spots to create quasi 'hob-nailed boots'. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/11/23/diy-crampons-equals-4wd-boots/
24/11/2022: Next we have the ‘trans-human’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/gender-is-complicated-i-am-not-human/
24/11/2022: Is this why we banned tanning beds: https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/naked-uk-woman-gets-trapped-in-tanning-bed/
24/11/2022: Looks like Shakespeare to me: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/22/is-this-really-the-only-portrait-of-william-shakespeare-made-in-his-lifetime?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=553f580c66-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_11_22_02_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-553f580c66-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
23/11/2022: Sword of
Damocles: A
wild and windy night! We were checking on the creek and dams this morning after
all the bad weather and discovered this new "Sword of Damocles"which had
obviously launched itself from the huge blue gum above, embedding itself firmly
and deeply in the ground on the track below. So glad no-one was underneath at
the time! All the branches below are another blue-gum giant that came down last
winter. It is still waiting for the farm to dry out enough so that we can get
machinery in to undertake the task of removing it
23/11/2022: Well done: Army Vet Beat Shooter to a Pulp with His Own Gun: https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/21/an-army-veteran-says-he-went-into-combat-mode-to-disarm-the-gunman/
23/11/2022: About
that Ivermectin again. Note its proven efficacy (third link) as against the
‘approved’ anti-virals and the number of studies (and patients) which support
this – hundreds of times as much evidence for it as compared to them.
Vaccination failed (as predicted) indeed has probably killed more people than
the disease would have (if properly managed): https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/29447/covid-in-november/
& https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Ftruth-about-ivermectin
& https://c19ivm.org/meta.html#tcite_whoapproval
23/11/2022: Good:
23/11/2022: 45,000 junketeers
fly into
22/11/2022: Back to the moon: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-nasa-moon-mission-exceeding-expectaions.html
22/11/2022: Reality
is not what we think it is. This may not affect how many elephants there
are in the room but might affect how many angels there are on a pin-head: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/reality-objective-exist/
22/11/2022: Why it is hard to say ‘extinction is forever’: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-spotted-this-large-colorful-pigeon-that-no-one-has-seen-in-140-years?fbclid=IwAR2l_hjt-6ECqR3vY4rlxRhNeirDrFkWKwLkGNCLJluOAyeZ75crWgCeqZ8
22/11/2022: Cold
kills. Here’s a little insight into why 60,000 folks died of cold in the
21/11/2022: A hot dog
and a beer at the world cup in
21/11/2022: Forget
Methane; its heating effect is even more pathetic than CO2. Water vapour is
the only real greenhouse gas worth thinking about: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/19/methane-much-ado-about-nothing/
21/11/2022:
21/11/2022: Phantom Voters – I wonder how many we have here in Oz too? This is a key metric of the integrity of our democratic system. How can the rolls go unchecked for years and years? If we have mail-in ballots (we should not except in the most extreme cases of illness/infirmity and with vast safeguards) we will have scams. The same applies if we do not have voter ID on election day and serious penalties for fraud. It is also really important that everyone is voting with full knowledge – early voting means that this cannot be so. We should all vote on the same day and all votes should be counted openly and rigorously with lots of security checks: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/can-see-phantoms-get-off-voter-rolls/ & https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Farticles%2F2022%2F11%2Felection_fraud_20_ok_so_what_are_you_gonna_do_about_it.html
20/11/2022: The Joy
of Closed Roads: As a follow-up to my post Find
Your Own Places to Explore can I suggest that for years (in
20/11/2022:
20/11/2022: Enough of the trannie, “Be Kind’ b------t: https://urbanscoop.news/good-men-stay-out-so-bad-men-stand-out/
20/11/2022: A few decades ago they tried to scare everybody with global cooling:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tAYXQPWdC0
& https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/41978
19/11/2022: Forgotten
animals of
19/11/2022: The ‘red
wave’ was real but so was the Democrat voter fraud. We should not be so
complacent here in
19/11/2022: “To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.” Solzhenitsyn. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell. A somber reflection on the class war being fought in our schools by left-wing ideologues. You know this is happening here in Oz too: https://issuesinsights.com/2022/11/08/your-children-belong-to-the-state/
19/11/2022: No sooner
did Trump declare himself in the race for the Presidency than the Dems launched
several attempts to incriminate him. They are deeply afraid of this man –
and so they should be. He might actually succeed in ‘making
18/11/2022: And now we have $250 hearing aids. All along it was a scam: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apple-airpods-cheaper-alternative-hearing-aids
18/11/2022: A great way to teach science: https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/15/coolest-high-school-science-class-ever-takes-students-hunting-n64411
18/11/2022: The best of both worlds? Why not: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/new-report-details-growing-trend-transgender-people-seeking-surgeries-male-female-genitalia/
18/11/2022: Good luck with that ‘energy transition’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/global-demand-for-gigawatts-is-insatiable-to-make-one-smartphone-takes-almost-as-much-energy-as-a-fridge/
16/11/2022: Massive electoral fraud again in the US: If you can’t see that Biden could not have performed so well in the election just last week and still be getting these poll results: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/fraud-9-believe-america-right-track-latest-poll-bidens-approval-dismal-39-days-scores-greatest-midterm-election-decades/
16/11/2022: That will teach them a lesson. What a ‘great religion’ – of course women don’t have ‘souls’ so it probably won’t even hurt them. Just like Descartes’ attitude to live vivisection of dogs really: https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/11/14/iranian-parliament-votes-in-favor-of-executing-15000-womens-rights-protestors-n510889
15/11/2022: It is strange isn’t it that we can’t have more hydro dams because they ‘spoil’ the environment (though a much smaller area than wind or solar farms) and are their own batteries and do not require costly and dangerous lithium. I have long noticed that the Greens seem hell-bent on destroying the environment in order to ‘save’ it. Their huge wildfire destroyed ‘national parks’ are a case in point: https://spectator.com.au/2022/11/not-green-at-all/
15/11/2022: Artificial
photosynthesis might ‘save’ us but it has a long way to go yet: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-chemists-artificial-photosynthesis-ten-efficient.html
15/11/2022: Not quite the only sane scientist in the room: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/11/the-biggest-public-policy-disaster-in-a-lifetime/
15/11/2022: Living within your means and paying your way: Personally I was brought up with this duo pretty much as creeds. To many they seem quaint now, if people have even heard of them. Debt always involves printing funny money ahead of its being earned/created, hence it is the chief cause of inflation. It robs the future to pay for present excess, and always robs savers and rewards spendthrifts – so is unwise (as policy) at best. It can only be justified in times of national crises (such as imminent invasion). Unfortunately people come to believe in it, that it is normal/desirable even – and keep voting for it. The popularity of a proposition has no connection with its truth (or otherwise) – else there would not be so many billions of folk wedded yet to various religions, each believing their own to be the font of all truth, yet failing to grasp the obvious fact that whilst they cannot all be true, they can all be false - and almost certainly are. Imagine believing the ridiculous proposition that there is something after death. As if road kill was going to bound back to life. And such after-lives are still so woeful geographically, being associated still with well explored ups and downs. What? Will Voyager eventually encounter God? We cannot keep on racking up debt (either personally or nationally) as if there will be no tomorrow. The piper will eventually have to be paid. Unfortunately (as the fate of Hamelin reminds us) it will be our children who have to pay that price!
14/11/2022: Who
should/can we vote for at the next election? The choice seems to have narrowed dreadfully.
Once there was some sort of dichotomy. Perhaps it was artificial but now we are
just offered different shades of the same thing – at least by the ‘major
parties. Perhaps why they have actually disappeared in some countries, such
as
14/11/2022: What should we talk about? Interesting. I remember being surprised reading in P.G.Wodehouse years ago about the introduction of ‘small talk’ into society. I had not realized until then that it was ‘a thing’ – but there you go. I have always found it unbearably tedious, but no doubt (to others) my conversation is replete with all sorts of social gaffes resulting in my failing to dizzyingly ascend the social ladder: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/11/people-oversharing-tmi-friendship-boundaries/671970/?utm_source=pocket_saves
14/11/2022: Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Looks like a good idea. A million years’ of electric power available – will that be enough? https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/hydrogen-boron-fusion-could-be-a-dream-come-true/
13/11/2022: Writing has always served really important purposes: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/09/oldest-known-written-sentence-discovered-on-a-head-lice-comb
13/11/2022: This is as at last an important step forward: https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/aussie-company-gives-new-life-to-old-hybrid-and-ev-batteries-138333/?fbclid=IwAR0pDMQPdV9MMJuZ8zTkThcUuolNUFL-upkrFt7xBAG1Eq-870DT4q66gE8
13/11/2022: Once it was good news that the last Ice Age was going away: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/11/glacier-saga/
13/11/2022: They know
how to do things in
11/11/2022: Starting
to look as if the Democrat electoral fraud huge as it no doubt was, involving
maybe nearly 20% fake votes may not have been quite enough!
11/11/2022: Duh! https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/11/08/national-park-service-warning-no-licking-sonoran-desert-toad/1341667947342/
11/11/2022: 200
million! Just a reminder of how many people leftist governments murdered in the
C20th – yet you wonder why I am a conservative. The current conflict in
11/11/2022: Lithium mining does not look like a big win for the environment: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/13/lithium-mining-for-electric-vehicles-is-incredibly-destructive-to-the-environment-and-about-as-far-from-green-as-you-can-imagine/
10/11/2022: De
Santis’ (
10/11/2022: It is unbelievable that people are behaving like this in the birthplace of democracy. Such vile, extreme antisemitism: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/11/london-horrible.html
10/11/2022: Have we made society too equal, so destroying it in the process? We certainly have far too many people who will not do meaningful work: https://www.city-journal.org/impoverished-by-equality
10/11/2022: So true: Why the quest for happiness is a fraud: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/07/the-big-idea-why-we-shouldnt-try-to-be-happy?fbclid=IwAR0W8SlKYwYPN2YZRX0YumH5HCE3QbCS17Co4hVclm2jtUjl4OUoE5M9wk4
09/11/2022: “Among all
forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
George Eliot in Middlemarch’
09/11/2022: Making VR more real, now a VR headset which actually kills you. Great idea: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/oculus-headset-killer-palmer-luckey-nervegear-b2219992.html
09/11/2022: Soon we won’t even be allowed to be grandparents (after being banned from being mums and ads some time back). This ‘Newspeak’ nonsense is all quite insane: https://www.theepochtimes.com/australians-outraged-at-schools-renaming-grandparents-as-grandfriends_4849116.html
09/11/2022: Climate change has become a convenient excuse for doing nothing about real conservation problems. The dreadful ‘experiment’ of our constantly razed yet weed and vermin infested ‘National Parks’ which we may not even walk in here in Oz is a case in point: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/08/matt-ridley-green-zealots-are-threatening-real-conservation/
08/11/2022: A poignant and valid lament: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/economics/2022/11/the-stradivarius-and-the-market/
08/11/2022: Unless
another massive electoral fraud succeeds the
08/11/2022: You have to figure they will want to make euthenasia compulsory so as to get rid of us troubling old (right-wing) folks and no doubt the ongoing attack on the availability of painkillers is a quiver in their bow: https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/11/04/doctors-advised-suggest-suicide-patients-canada-runs-out-basic-painkillers/
08/11/2022: There is some hope the world may rid itself of the inconvenience of ‘daylight saving’: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/daylight-saving-time?rid=0BE1689690A4BEB6E8876A8F4E63485E&cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Health_20221106
07/11/2022: Is witchcraft making a comeback: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/was-lola-daviets-murder-motivated
07/11/2022: Trudeau shuts down the Internet – the Left is coming for your minds: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/woe-canada-justin-trudeau-comrades-seek-abolish-internet-freedom-canadian-citizens/
07/11/2022: A new internal combustion engine which is 50% more efficient: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a19909520/gas-diesel-engine-reactivity-controlled-compression-ignition/?src=socialflowFBRAT&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowR%26T&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0X4-eEkVW9-gz91cBUc1QL8s3IbIFSk6eYc9A4JaodpWE6HtC87x_OCQI
07/11/2022: Eschew Soothsayers – no-one knows what the future will be and anyone who claims they do is a charlatan. As an example, 100% of climate models predicted that it would be much warmer than it actually is: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/10/50-year-u-s-summer-temperature-trends-all-36-climate-models-are-too-warm/
The alleged warming becomes even less if you subtract the urban heat effect: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/11/de-urbanization-of-surface-temperatures-with-the-landsat-based-built-up-dataset/
And etc: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/05/how-ipccs-1990-predictions-expensively-failed/
06/11/2022: Tocharus – a fascinating site if you are interested in the importance of ancient history: https://tocharus.substack.com/p/the-diet-of-slaves
06/11/2022: Just in
case you were thinking the recent election in
06/11/2022: So, how long will it be before more people are killed by lithium battery fires than car accidents? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/saving-the-world-with-lithium-four-times-a-week-an-e-bike-battery-explodes-into-flames-in-new-york/
06/11/2022: Yes we
have peak (climate) madness.
05/11/2022: A real
anti-aging treatment – bring it on: https://scitechdaily.com/unexpected-scientists-discover-an-anti-aging-mechanism/
05/11/2022: I see the Chinese nearly lobbed a huge rocket on us (and probably you too). Only luck it did not squash us. Not really good enough Mr Xi – Try to emulate Elon in future: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/good-citizen-china-carelessly-crashes-23-tons-of-space-junk-on-earth-gets-lucky-but-300-flights-in-spain-delayed/
05/11/2022: Bring back Liz! Sunak must go! After re-banning fracking on Day 1 and rushing off to COP 27 which Liz shunned, he now sides with Palestinians and terrorists – how did he even get to be PM anyway? I thought that was decided (by a stunning majority) by an actual plebiscite of Conservative Party members? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/3/uk-has-no-plans-to-move-israel-embassy-to-jerusalem-pm-office
05/11/2022: Too true: “Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it…Anyone who’s ever been a parent will recognize these actions: throwing food, spilling milk, smearing paint on the walls, sitting on the ground and refusing to move. Add in the inability to properly dispose of one’s bodily waste, and the pattern is complete. This is the behavior of toddlers.” https://quillette.com/2022/10/30/moral-toddlerhood/
Their attack on the
greatest art ever produced (while they are able to produce nothing) is a
grim reminder of the
04/11/2022: Do we have ‘Peak Woke’ yet: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/11/woke-must-be-close-to-peaking.html
04/11/2022: Huge differences in Covid 19 between these two countries. Why? https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-countries-one-with
04/11/2022: The Dangers of Low Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations – from a real climate scientist: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/03/the-dangers-of-low-atmospheric-co2-concentrations/
04/11/2022: I realize that it was the Left (Democrats) who were the slavery party and that it was the British people and British navy which (largely) ended it – and at great public cost – but it still amazes me how the ‘elites’ of today are (still) in favour of racist distinctions and preferments whilst using that very word as a weapon against their enemies ie any don’t agree with them – and instead support Martin Luther King’s contention that people ought to be judged solely on their worth as human beings: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/all-the-best-people-favor-racial-discrimination.php
03/11/2022: Nuts! Why we must ‘save the planet’ from our sheep: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/climate-injustice-a-personal-account-from-a-kiwi-farmer/
03/11/2022: The
Conservatives’ motto, “Never let go of the old, or harm it in any way,
until the new is well and truly in hand.” Take the oil industry as
an example. (We are in for a very rough time): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/02/big-oil-small-oil/
03/11/2022: “Australians don’t want the state creating breadlines for kids – they want politicians to lower taxes, stop wasting money, fix the energy grid, get out of their lives, and return all those fines issued to innocent people during the pandemic.” But it’s not what Guy is standing for – if he stands for anything. We must put our wholesale support behind the other conservative alternatives despite some of their shortcomings else we will just have another four years of Dictator Dan, and basically ruin! https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/lobster-bisque/
03/11/2022: It has got to be past time they got rid of Joe. A guy who can’t even remember where and when his own son died is just not all there. But who are they going to replace him with? Not cackling Kamala surely? Do try to remember these folks have their fingers on the nuclear war trigger: https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/biden-again-wrongly-says-son-beau-died-in-iraq-in-stumbling-florida-speech/
02/11/2022: Why am I not surprised: https://www.psypost.org/2022/10/cannabis-use-does-not-increase-actual-creativity-but-does-increase-how-creative-you-think-you-are-study-finds-64187?utm_source=PsyPost+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d652cb89e1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a44dd6ef29-d652cb89e1-127440501
02/11/2022: Good Question: Why hasn’t feminism made women happier? https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/why-60-years-of-feminism-has-not-made-women-any-happier/
02/11/2022:
02/11/2022: Looks
like Bolsonaro will overturn the rigged election in
01/11/2022: A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Conservative!"
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me."
The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Progressive."
"I am, replies the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault.
01/11/2022: Who needs a weather bureau when we can just use soothsayers instead? Things just get worse and worse. Does anyone (else) care: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/third-world-australian-met-bureau-cuts-back-on-weather-balloons-scientists-say-its-kind-of-horrific/
01/11/2022: Bowen is simply brain dead – he just wants us to live by extracting sunlight from cucumbers, as in ‘Gulliver’s Travels’: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/unfeasible-and-unrealistic-to-have-small-modular-reactors-in-australia-bowen/video/dee65dbfd0a711926a209cd3767baaf8
01/11/2022: Evidently
the Brazilian election is also mathematically impossible. Is this the WEF and
31/10/2022: You are what you eat: https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/30/food-that-looks-like-family-michigan-mom-makes-hilarious-meatloaf-resembling-her-son/
31/10/2022: House hunting on Mars: https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/29/house-hunting-on-mars-has-already-started/
31/10/2022: Sunak
wants people dead but Truss did not. The
31/10/2022: Even (and at last) Greenpeace admits plastic recycling is rubbish, but it will not move on to burning it to produce electricity: https://www.city-journal.org/greenpeace-admits-recycling-doesnt-work
30/10/2022: Data shows net zero is a lie: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/eight_graphs_that_prove_net_zero_is_a_woke_scam
30/10/2022: Remember when the
30/10/2022: Integration, Yes! Well said Gary, (who was an ex-Labor Minister by the way): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/10/reframing-the-debate-in-aboriginal-affairs/
29/10/2022: The ‘Ms Higgins’ case is
just awful. This is not anything like the Adrian Baillie/Jill Meagher case,
nor is she an innocent schoolgirl being dragged off the footpath in broad
daylight and raped at knifepoint in the bushes. The law was intended to
‘protect’ such real victims and to punish the perpetrators. I have long said
that such actual crimes merit the death penalty. But to consensually go to you
workplace in dead of night, dead drunk, and to have no memory of the incidents
is not the behaviour of an innocent. Such behaviour in itself should be
punished by dismissal from employment (for both participants). That is about
where the matter should have ended. There was
29/10/2022: How did Stan Grant (perhaps a quarter or one-eight caste, if any – not so long ago he used to be Irish) get to be blacker than Jacinta Price – or even her mother Bess, or even her (still living) grandmother, one of the very last people to walk out of the Western Desert, meet Europeans for the first time and (in so doing) ‘vote’ to join the rest of the human race. I suspect a lot of it really is down to ‘Nugget’ ie boot polish, which perhaps should be banned and only purple allowed: https://www.rebelnews.com/jacinta_price_calls_out_labor_s_woke_federal_budget
29/10/2022: Under Ardern NZ is now ‘The land of the thought police’. Not sure I will be allowed in either. Did plan to go there hiking again next year – perhaps they will have a change of Government before then? https://www.rebelnews.com/i_wouldn_t_be_let_in_under_nz_s_opposing_views_ban_says_andrew_bolt
29/10/2022: “The demand for electric
car drivers exceeds the supply”. Instapundit.
28/10/2022: Thomson Dam at 99.8%. It’s going to flow over – tomorrow probably. Second time only – maybe you missed it in 1996. Quite a sight. Plus lunch at the Erica, Rawson or Walhalla Pubs, but book: https://www.melbournewater.com.au/water-data-and-education/water-storage-levels#/ PS: It has gone over – view from the power station is the best:
28/10/2022: ‘Farming needs to stop’ to save the planet. Does insanity have a limit? Probably not. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/22/farming-needs-to-stop-thats-the-single-biggest-driver-of-climate-change/
28/10/2022: If you aren’t concerned about this you truly are brain dead: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/australian-inflation-soars-to-73-highest-since-1990.html
28/10/2022: The Green Revolution - in other news: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/26/wind-farm-in-germany-is-being-dismantled-to-expand-coal-mine/
27/10/2022: On
this day in 2011: "Went to
27/10/2022: ‘Free’ Power Bank: 'Waste not, want not' was another of my mother's favourite maxims - one I have certainly taken to heart, as my wife will attest as I has fill our house and sheds up with all sorts of 'mathoms' - hobbit for 'junk'.
I had two 'dead' laptop batteries which I probably ought to have binned or recycled but today (it was raining) I decided to dismantle them instead and stripped off the welded tabs. Each contained 6 x 18650 rechargeable lithium batteries.
Each cell was dead flat. After placing them in the single power bank I recommended here they (surprisingly) all came back 'to life'. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/26/free-power-bank/
27/10/2022: "By
2001...a chicken reached the weight at which it would be killed in one-third of
the time and after eating one-third of the food compared with the 1957 breed...represents...reduction
in waste and in the..land devoted to growing feed per chicken" http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/genetics-bigger-chickens
27/10/2022: The future that the green madness plans for or electricity/energy supply too. Vote for anyone else: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/unplug-the-fridge-uk-gears-up-for-hard-cold-winter-and-bbc-secretly-plans-for-a-national-blackout/
It’s the cold, stupid. The same sort of view is presented here, and the same conclusion: kick as many of our rulers out when we get the chance as we possibly can: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/26/lets-talk-about-real-climate-cataclysms/
27/10/2022: This new racist apartheid
politics is enough (for me) never to vote Labor/Coalition again. Imagine
being denied access to any public land in
26/10/2022: World’s dirtiest man dies (at 94): https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/worlds-dirtiest-man-dies-aged-94-months-after-taking-his-first-shower-in-67-years/news-story/257c86cf8ba484dc5c90add6a5c95136
26/10/2022: O2 is what we should really be worried about. Its percentage in the atmosphere wouldn't have to fall too much before our kind of life found it decidedly uncomfortable (especially at elevation). What is the environmentalists' response to this impending 'crisis': Lock up two molecules of oxygen for every molecule of carbon forever (ie CO2 sequestration). Fortunately life has another way: it is called photosynthesis: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/23/earths-great-oxidation-event/#more-72919
26/10/2022: Farage is almost certainly right - Sunak is not the man: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/globalist-ever-saw-one-believe-conservatives-doomed-nigel-farage-blasts-new-uk-pm-rishi-sunak-video/
26/10/2022: I hope this morning you are beginning to realize how hopeless Labor and the Greens are: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-tough-times-to-get-much-harder-under-labor/news-story/88e1d2c073aa7396ad1c94ec335f036a
24/10/2022: I know it is impolite to speak ill of the dead, but just a reminder (from 2016): The Royal Commission’s findings regarding Kimberly Kitching are that ‘(v) Kimberly Kitching should be charged with and prosecuted for aiding and abetting the contraventions of each of Diana Asmar, David Eden, Darryn Rowe, Nick Katsis, Saso Trajcevski-Uzunov and Lee Atkinson (Chapter 9).’ Yet Shorten’s Labor promoted her to a place in the Senate! Her death was then dressed up as a great tragedy – as if such (corrupt) folks ought not be executed (shot) out of hand.
24/10/2022: Save
the Planet’, the ‘great unwashed’ scream, yet we may have already done so (and
by the unlikely means of the Industrial Revolution’). Let me explain: Plants
need @ 200ppm of CO2 to survive. If the percentage drops below that (ie .02%)
life will pretty much cease – yet the pre-Industrial world tilted perilously
close to that. The percentage has varied from upwards of 20,000ppm in the time
of the dinosaurs for example, down to just over 200ppm over time, during which
warm, tropical periods and ice ages came and went completely uncorrelated to
its percentage. However, steadily the percentage of CO2 being liberated by
volcanism and other processes eg from the carboniferous rocks, coal & peat
deposits etc where it ‘ultimately’ becomes ‘locked up, declined until just
before the Industrial Revolution its percentage was such that the cessation of
life on earth was imminent. The forests shrank and great plains and deserts
spread across much of the globe as there was not enough CO2 to build any more
forests, and much of life had to retreat to what were really oases to survive.
Just in the nick of time (folks of a religious persuasion will see this as
predestined) as a result of the Industrial Revolution personkind began to
liberate vast quantities of carbon in the form of CO2 and a wonderful profusion
of life was the result. The forests spread, the deserts and grasslands
retreated and once more a profusion of life saturated the planet: That is the
era we are living in: the Anthropocene. It can only get better! In the last @30
years this CO2 has caused the increase of approx two
24/10/2022: I think the most awful part of this story is that the audience cheered: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/transgender-comedian-strips-naked-live-tv-broadcast-plays-piano-penis/
24/10/2022: May be ordering some of these bumper stickers: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/saving-australia-one-bumper-sticker-at-a-time/
23/10/2022: Cruising
to the North Pole: https://us.ponant.com/destinations/the-arctic Should you think this voyage is down to
‘global warming you shuld realise nuclear subs have been doing it for a long
while: https://theaviationist.com/2016/03/21/watch-this-stunning-video-of-a-u-s-nuclear-submarine-breaking-the-ice-to-surface-in-the-arctic-circle/
and that the Vikings always used the North-West passage in their voyages to
Greenland. They had to abandon their
23/10/2022: SpaceX is really transforming space – not to mention communications here on earth. Rumour has it that Musk will ‘soon’ add functionality to Starlink which will allow cellphones to also act as satellite phones (when away from a conventional tower). That would be a game-changer: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-group-4-36-satellites-launch
23/10/2022: Finally positive proof covid 19 came from a lab: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/blockbuster-fingerprint-genetic-evidence-strongly-suggests-covid-was-bio-engineered/
23/10/2022: Alas, the
‘coup’ in
22/10/2022: Hajimari Boomerang Ball – have your kids got this amazing toy yet? https://hajimariball.com/
22/10/2022: Michael Shellenberger has some fine points here including that the ‘climate narcissism’ we see about us (especially in the young) might well be a result of “overprotection and coddling of children by their parents and other adults result(ing) in anxious, depressed, and grandiose adolescents”: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1573370013054128129
22/10/2022: So much for Gillard being against ‘misogyny’. Did you realize she basically abolished women altogether? https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/gillards-guilt/
Meanwhile real women vote on more important issues: inflation, crime, schools, their kids’ futures… https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/wayne-root-las-vegas-oddsmaker-says-bet-house-gop-landslide-women-stupid/
22/10/2022: Well played Volkswagen: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/protestors-glue-floor-get-mad-company-doesnt-provide-bowl-urinate-defecate/
No sense warming or lighting climate protesters with fossil fuel.
In other news: https://babylonbee.com/news/sad-climate-activists-vandalize-a-picasso-but-no-one-can-tell
21/10/2022: The Simplest Electric ‘Motor’ – the black cylinder is a battery and the round object is a magnet. There are so many true and enchanting things children can be taught about the world without stuffing their developing brains with falsehoods and creeds: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534051-100-show-children-how-to-make-a-simple-electric-motor-with-a-magnet/
21/10/2022: Even my dead dog wouldn’t vote for you – but evidently she could: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/dead-dog-receives-register-vote-mail-application-mi-dem-party-homeowners-response-priceless/
21/10/2022:
21/10/2022: An awful
crime and tragedy. 12 such deaths so far.
20/10/2022:
Remembering that before John Howard and other such nanny-staters people always
had the right to bear arms: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/given-back-as-a-gift-that-which-was-taken/
PS: It appalls me that the
20/10/2022: No doubt some people dream of such things: imagine finding 100 naked men on the side of the road: https://www.news.com.au/world/united-nations-demands-investigation-after-100-naked-men-found-on-the-side-of-a-road/news-story/965a04a90628bb83d4a1c17a5a02825c
20/10/2022: The covid vaccine story just keeps getting worse and worse: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/alice-in-vax-land-lets-test-this-on-8-mice-and-force-it-on-50-million-children/
20/10/2022: Albanese
lied to Parliament and the Australian people (on a Stat Dec) and should be
forced to resign. In yesterday’s Herald Sun he was openly admitting he has
been in contact with his brother in
18/10/2022: Cipolla’s five basic laws of stupidity – they ought to be graven in stone in every public place so we may harken to them: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/are-you-technically-stupid-check-the-third-basic-law/
18/10/2022: Past
floods without CO2: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/the-forgotten-floods-of-victoria-from-150-years-ago/
18/10/2022: You wonder why anyone would want to create a virus that was nearly totally fatal: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/arrest-now-boston-university-doctors-create-new-covid-variant-80-kill-rate-funded-dr-fauci-nih/
18/10/2022:
Antisemitic ALP at it again.
17/10/2022: Seems
there are folks who can’t distinguish between disagreeing with a culture, and
‘racism’, the newest easy ‘put-down’ – all too distinguishable from ‘thought’.
They have forgotten (apparently – did they ever know?) that most of my and my
parents’ lives (this is litotes) was spent fighting the dreadful culture of
communism, or that some years of my parents’ generations’ lives were spent
eradicating the culture of Nazism, or that my generation stamped out the
culture of cannibalism in New Guinea (and with it that fascinating parasite –
responsible for the dread disease ‘kuru’ – which more than anything I know of
proved that ‘life will find a way!), and so much more. Evil must be fought,
whether it is politically correct to do so or not. Not all cultures are equal,
certainly not all are good, and some are downright execrable. A culture which
supports extreme violence and sexual abuse of women and children for example,
must not be allowed to remain. There is ample evidence that there are some
cultures which do have horribly evil characteristics at their very core: they
must be eliminated. (I have no time for the Saudis, for example). Traditional
‘aboriginal culture’ is an oxymoron. I am not (of course) advocating harming or
killing any human being when I say this. For example, I had a number of friends
who were ‘patrol officers’ in
17/10/2022: Oh Liz…Definitely not another Maggie Thatcher then, alas. Fourth ‘Treasurer’ in three months – have the Brits forgotten how to add up – like everyone else? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/14/uk-pm-liz-truss-fires-finance-minister-kwasi-kwarteng.html
17/10/2022: The climate is enormously, inherently stable. The world “has had millennia to settle into those planetary-scale patterns of temperatures and available sunshine…Once the average available solar power is above 310W/m2, you can add up to an additional 50 W/m2 without increasing the surface temperature one bit.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/16/solar-sensitivity/
17/10/2022: Peter
Smith has a very valid point about imposing a
16/10/2022: ‘1883’ –
a great new series.
16/10/2022: Disappointments of time travel: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/ancient-technology-0017394
16/10/2022: Bring it on: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-scientists-osteoarthritis.html
16/10/2022: Serial Killer diversity has come a long way: https://www.frontpagemag.com/serial-killers-are-too-white/
15/10/2022: ‘Derry
Girls’, the funniest thing to come out of
15/10/2022: So, Pfizer now admits they never tested to see whether their vaccine would prevent covid transmission. We put such people in charge! https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-exec-admits-under-oath-we-never-tested-covid-vaccine-against-transmission
Meanwhile, Dr Peter McCullough: "Before the Covid jabs, 4 in a million Myocarditis cases, afterwards, 25,000 in a million....Myocarditis at this point in time is due to the Covid jabs until proven otherwise." Myocarditis, a 6,000 times increase – just a coincidence!
15/10/2022: Bring back the cane for such spoilt vandals. I am sick of being lectured to by half-witted badly raised infants of whatever age: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/climate-activists-throw-soup-on-van-gogh-painting-to-save-the-world/
14/10/2022: Find Your Own Places to Explore An ‘extension’ of an earlier post, Gully Walking
I have always liked Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’
even though I realised long ago how much he/it owed toward my even more
favourite poet, Edward Thomas. However I too long ago “took the one less
traveled by, And that has made all the difference” as Frost reflects, and I
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
It is all very well (as a beginner hiker/outdoorsman) perhaps to first experience some of the outstanding ‘great walks’ which abound in your country, but soon you will realize that they are both too crowded and have long since stopped providing quite the bliss of solitude and exploration which perhaps their creation envisaged. But you have to start somewhere.
Before you head off on your own ‘road’ you first need to master some bushcraft skills such as I have been talking about here for quite some time. You need to be able to find your way unaided (ie with just your senses and intelligence through the trackless bush (for days at a time) – and this takes study and practice. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/13/find-your-own-places-to-explore/
14/10/2022: Just a small mistake: https://www.wxii12.com/article/suspects-finger-severed-victim-slams-door-hand-attempted-home-invasion/41585440#
14/10/2022: Do you need further proof that EVs will not work: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/13/dear-neighbour-please-ration-your-electricity-use-so-our-evs-can-charge/
14/10/2022: Glyphosate not the bad guy then: https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/10/11/science-finally-winning-day-glyphosate-cases-16602
13/10/2022: More questions for our time: Did Kosciuszko die of acne? http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65336
13/10/2022: Five compelling reasons why you should reject ‘man-made climate change’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/five-climate-change-smoking-guns-reasons-manmade-climate-change-lie/
13/10/2022: Which came first – Nazism or environmentalism? https://www.encounterbooks.com/features/nazis-embraced-environmentalism/
13/10/2022: ‘Who blew up the
12/10/2022: A grand old lady passes: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/angela-lansbury-murder-she-wrote-star-and-legendary-hollywood-actress-dead
12/10/2022: Peak Oil Anyone? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/04/the-permian-basin-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/
12/10/2022: Clearly they knew about covid much earlier than we were told: https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/chinese-scientist-filed-covid-vaccine-patent-after-contagion-emerged-report/
12/10/2022: Neither do I think this was ‘misinformation’. Such ‘information’ as we got was rather poor and very one-sided. The move by ‘Big Tech’ and Big Gov’ to throttle it was dire: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/florida-surgeon-general-advises-men-aged-18-39-not-to-take-covid-vax-twitter-deletes-misinformation/
11/10/2022: Jacinta Price is great. Hers is the kind of ‘Voice’ we need as a nation.: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/the-jacinta-juggernaut/
11/10/2022: How good are EVs in an emergency? Now those which got wet are exploding. Great stuff: https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/09/electric_vehicles_and_the_evacuation_of_florida.html
11/10/2022: An author to check out: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/10/she-holds-six-of-top-10-spots-on-new.html
11/10/2022: Today’s
Left seeks to turn everywhere into
10/10/2022: Merrin’s Wiggly Stick: This afternoon as I came out of the front door after lunch to go work on the tractor I saw the largest red-bellied black snake I think I had ever seen just sliding under the fridge on the verandah then it simply disappeared. I poked around under the fridge, even moved the fridge; yet there was no sign of it. I thought ‘No way such a large snake could be in the rat bait station next to the fridge’ but when I lifted the lid there it was. I suspect it had been there before. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/10/merrins-wiggly-stick/
09/10/2022: ‘How dare you do anything productive!’ is pretty much the motto of local councils the world over: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/diddly-squat/
09/10/2022: When renewable electricity becomes so expensive you can’t afford to make solar panels: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/netzero-destroys-netzero-europe-cant-manufacture-solar-panels-due-to-high-energy-prices/
Fortunately we will be able to warm ourselves from EV fires: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/after-the-storm-then-come-the-ev-fires/
09/10/2022: A New Welcome to Country.
Yes, ‘Before beginning, I’d like to acknowledge the sovereign land of
Australia and the institutions and way of life that ensure our freedoms and
liberties; one land, one nation, one people. We stand on the shoulders of
giants and as a result of their legacy
09/10/2022: Remember when 3,000 people used to be killed in car accidents annually and it was a problem requiring various draconian solutions (many of which have been implemented with detriment to our freedoms, alas) but now that 10,000 excess deaths are occurring we should ignore it: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/new-cdc-data-shows-7-7-of-10-million-people-needed-medical-care-after-vaccination/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/10000-mysterious-excess-deaths-in-australia-that-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/
08/10/2022: Eating on the Wild Side – cheaper than the supermarket anyway: https://www.amazon.com.au/Eating-Wild-Side-Pharmacologic-Implications/dp/0816520674?asin=B08W9LRC7D&revisionId=e17c26ab&format=1&depth=1
08/10/2022: When the lunatics are in charge of our energy supply: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/10/05/guest-post-dr-faustus-abide-with-me/
08/10/2022: CPAC underlines the woeful state of the Liberal/National Parties. Truly a new conservative force in Oz politics is needed, soonest: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/10/cpac-and-its-no-show-conservatives/
08/10/2022: Regarding aboriginal
‘displacement’, one should understand that almost no women came to
07/10/2022: Be Prepared: 'A word to the wise is enough'. Unfortunately for most people 'a word' is not enough. Every year world-wide tens of thousands of poorly prepared people disappear or meet their end in the back country when they should have just been having fun, admiring the view of that far horizon, peering around the river's bend to see what's there and breathing that clear cool air deeply. I hope I can prevent a few such unfortunate events. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/05/be-prepared/
07/10/2022: Men’s Lib Anyone? Yes, we have a problem, eg “We also need a national recruitment drive for male teachers. Boys do better in schools with more men at the front of the classroom, especially in subjects like English. But men account for a shrinking share of the teaching profession: just 24%, down from 33% in the 1980s. In elementary schools, only 11% are men. And in the earliest years, men are virtually invisible. Just 3% of kindergarten teachers are men, which is about half the share of women flying military airplanes. Men, our schools need you.” : https://nypost.com/2022/10/01/why-us-boys-are-failing-at-schooland-men-are-losing-in-life/
07/10/2022: Hard to believe this guy (and Lomberg) used to be the enemy: https://www.amazon.com.au/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts-ebook/dp/B07Y8FHFQ7?asin=B07Y8FHFQ7&revisionId=8daa18d4&format=1&depth=1
07/10/2022: Whatever happened to the notion of ‘treason’? https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/if_you_chose_isis_you_are_no_longer_australian
06/10/2022: Might be nice if you like cruising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EouzzYmXyhA&t=3621s
06/10/2022: Is there hope? “This is a classic case of the slowly boiling frog. We are frogs slowly boiling as we speak. It is the fate that the great economist Friedrich Hayek warned us of in his best seller of the 1940s, The Road to Serfdom. He argued that totalitarianism can creep up by stealth and not only through revolution. Benign innovations like the welfare state turn, over time, into freedom-destroying, socialist disasters that no one, despite being in democratic systems, voted for. Hence, we get stuck with failed education systems that peddle propaganda and sideline parents, we get stuck with paying for subsidies to windfarms and solar panels, we get woked to death at every turn, we get abortion and euthanasia, we get COVID tyranny and discrimination. We get rule by experts that none of us have ever heard of, and who are, in any case, seldom expert at anything except controlling us. Oh, and we get mass immigration that has never, ever been debated on the hustings and for which nobody had a mandate. We get the Voice, despite Albo’s getting only 31 per cent of the primary vote — about the same as the alt-parties combined. So, we get the Voice but we don’t have a voice… we now inhabit a world where our rights are reduced to nought and the values that we still cherish and which substantial majorities of our fellow citizens once did too, are now minority views scorned by loud voices across the system. The duty to fight against the tyrannies that we have had foist upon us is more important than ever. And the uphill battle has taken on a steepness that will be uncongenial to most of us”. Things look bad, but maybe start ‘turning up’. At least get out there and vote for the Lib Dems, One Nation, UAP, Freedom Party & etc. Let’s show Andrews and Guy that we don’t want either of them: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/10/the-duty-to-make-a-stand-and-fight/
06/10/2022: And you thought you could keep foxes (not to mention ‘the yellow peril’) out of Oz: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-pacific-ocean-world-supercontinent.html
06/10/2022: If they did it once then they likely did it twice: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/flashback-cia-sabotaged-soviet-pipeline-europe-1982-us-software-caused-massive-explosion-siberian-pipeline-seen-space/
05/10/2022: Outback
Boats:
05/10/2022: A great business plan for the next gun amnesty: https://www.wktv.com/news/local/man-claims-he-was-paid-21-000-for-3d-printed-guns-at-new-york-ags/article_8e3be6fc-3eac-11ed-976b-7399515a1395.html
05/10/2022: A Compendium of Climate Lies: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1576596964447203330.html
05/10/2022: Thanks Dan: Another $600 million down the drain: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/victorias-white-elephant-covid-quarantine-camp-officially-granted-white-elephant-status.html
04/10/2022: Do you
think I was wrong in 2012 when I wrote this: “So, the Reserve Bank is still
playing fast and loose with our money: as if Capital was so easy to come by
- instead of taking a lifetime of hard work and saving. At current levels the
reserve bank's rates barely (if at all) keep pace with inflation leaving savers
with no income from their hard-earned money. On the other side of the ledger
the punters who want to further leverage their outlandish Macmansions are
encouraged to do so to the detriment of those who in the current real estate
climate can't afford housing at all and have to continue to live with their
parents and grandparents: I know several 'middle class' families of
Sydneysiders (all hard workers) who are sharing three generation housing.
Higher interest rates would advantage savers (including those saving for a
home) and force the outrageous price of housing downwards. It would take
probably twenty years of interest rates above 10% to force house prices down to
the more modest American level. Question: Why does it cost several times more
today to create a block of land and a house than it did thirty or fifty years
ago? Where are the benefits to housing of productivity growth and labour saving
machinery? In the 1950's, 60's and early 70's a father could afford to be the
only wage earner and support a wife and two children whilst paying off a house
and car. What happened to that Australian dream? Even though we have had
reasonable income all our lives with both of us working and contributing, we
have only managed to pay off a modest house (about half the value of a house in
04/10/2022: Perrottet gets worse and worse. Today he suggested draconian penalties against folk who (perfectly rightly) objected to racist ‘welcome to country’ nonsense at the footie. Let’s just have one country for all without any of this ‘race’ b------t, please! Somehow this has now been suppressed into a news item about maybe one person giving what might have been a Nazi salute and might just have been an awkward hand gesture too. Perrottet’s love of racism is just dreadful. First we have a divisive and frankly offensive flag replacing the NSW flag on the Harbour Bridge (as if someone else built that icon) then the news that he will be handing over all the land in National Parks to a certain race, now this threat to gaol or permanently ban anyone who objects to his racist politics. What next? White slavery anyone? As if this was not already the case when you consider the huge percentage of his beloved ‘folks of colour’ who are ‘welfare dependent’. Who is doing their work for them (or paying their land rates) then? (Of course the way immigration has been going it will be other ‘people of colour’). We must just have one country, equality of all, everyone standing on their own two feet, supporting themselves without any blame games or weak claims of victimhood.
04/10/2022: In case
you wonder why the Left want us to move over to electronic voting systems…You
should have little doubt who Google (or Goolag as you might prefer to call it)
wants to win: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/biggest-victory-patriots-history-brazil-despite-massive-fraud/
04/10/2022: ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’. Imagine being able to completely explain away the fact that women outlive men by seven years: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-find-that-men-have-a-high-probability-of-outliving-women/
03/10/2022: When life goes wrong: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-tale-of-richard-hoskins-a-life
03/10/2022: More Nigerian school-women rescued from terrorists: https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/schoolgirls-found-alive-8-years-notorious-kidnapping-case/
03/10/2022: We own the science; we own the truth – even if it is demonstrably wrong: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/we-own-the-science-brags-un-chief-who-works-with-google-to-suppress-climate-skeptics/
02/10/2022: Best strategies for longevity: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-older-adults-factors.html
02/10/2022: Beware: “The Voice is a move to create new constitutional entitlements by stealth. It would jettison the principle that, no matter when they or their ancestors arrived here, all Australians are equal. If it is successful, the real victims will be the majority of Australian voters who will find their country’s long-standing political commitment to egalitarianism and a fair go has been emasculated behind their back.” Giving away our National Parks and other public lands (now 60% of the country) is just creating a new hereditary ‘nobility’ this time based on supposed ‘race’ but which is not subject to the same laws as the rest of us, eg no need to pay rates or lose property because of unpaid rates. We have spent literally centuries getting rid of such evils:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/international-law-and-the-voice/
02/10/2022: The green movement wants to take food production back to the Middle Ages (and population with it): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/29/climate-activists-attacking-fertiliser-use-food-mass-production/
02/10/2022: 140,000
clearly fake votes found in just one county in
01/10/2022: So, what’s ahead? “Half a generation of traumatic experiences will eventually make firm rules of monetary stability acceptable. This time round they will have to be strictly and consistently enforced. In most nations, it will be necessary to cut back the burdens of government, although international conflicts will impose unavoidable new costs. And it will require courageous politicians who permit as much competition in capital, labour and product markets as it takes to produce a rise in entrepreneurial creativity. Nonetheless, the core elements of the 1980s recovery—stable money, smaller government, freer markets—and the political courage to oppose particular interests will again have to become the policy priorities if the huge task ahead is to be resolved.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/the-arduous-path-back-to-stability-and-growth/
01/10/2022: NSW introduces apartheid. Horrifying. This nonsense (evil) must end: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/paying-the-rent-with-our-national-parks/
01/10/2022: Surely you just can’t vote for a mass murderer (Andrews) no matter how bad the opposition – but now there are other alternatives. (One Nation, Freedom Party, UAP, etc) The likes of Andrews are presiding over daily deaths from covid sometimes of hundreds of people due almost solely to their refusal to implement cheap sensible prevention and treatment options which others succeeded with. Compare the Daily Deaths – and think about who is responsible here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/ & https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/
30/09/2022: Should we live a riskier existence – an interesting perspective: https://www.city-journal.org/bring-back-risk?utm_source=pocket_mylist
30/09/2022: At least Liz Truss is having a go at economic reform. It is a better direction anyway than ‘more socialism’ which seems to be the default position elsewhere: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/trussonomics-revolutionises-the-tax-debt-growth-conversation-20220922-p5bk2h?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3T7qwzQhKTiklmlCYpFokFL61sySOlpAOHhcbQy9ySKJzElZGhTist55o#Echobox=1664080310
30/09/2022: The climate models are just so bad – you would not want to bet your hard-earned on them: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/climate-models-not-good-enough-to-invest-my-superannuation-in-says-modeler-prof-andy-pitman/
30/09/2022: This was
a typical ‘first nations’ and victimhood scam: https://www.commonsense.news/p/the-great-canadian-mass-graves-hoax
29/09/2022: This is a profound and important essay. For example, “The self cannot bear such a heavy burden as creating its own happiness. Vitz pointed out that disengaging from institutional legacies reduces the sense of resilience, of drawing from the wisdom of the past, of being connected to others. It creates harm in attacking our respect for rational thought, in our understanding of objective reality, which ties in well with the critical theorists’ undermining of Western thought itself.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/the-psychologist-who-resisted-the-cultural-onslaught/
29/09/2022: What an evil witch this woman is. (Hopefully she is soon to be gone): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/ardern-tells-un-internet-freedom-is-a-weapon-of-war.html
29/09/2022: “In a unsettled world, countries which don’t have energy security don’t have any security at all”. Can I remind you that we import most of our transport fuel and that ‘reserves’ are only about three weeks. Small modular (nuclear) reactors make more strategic sense than big energy projects: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/as-underwater-gas-pipes-explode-ponder-that-a-third-of-uk-gas-comes-from-an-underwater-pipe/
29/09/2022: Meanwhile,
Congratulations
28/09/2022: One Pacific island which is definitely not shrinking: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/natural-wonders/new-island-discovered-in-pacific-ocean-after-tonga-underwater-volcano-eruption/news-story/2168f014f4b7f78efb2492f1b8a73cfa
28/09/2022: Someone
blew up the two Nordstream gas pipeleines ensuring
28/09/2022: The new Italian leader seems to be a breath of fresh air – likewise the new Swedish one. The times they are a’changing: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/giorgia-meloni-italy-without-roots-and-an-identity-you-are-a-slave-the-perfect-consumer/
28/09/2022: How
27/09/2022: It is not just our family of Joneses which arose from this Ely swamp: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65203
27/09/2022: Clearly people were right to be concerned about the MRNA vaccine. Its adverse effects have proved to be worse than any other medical treatment in history: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/we-should-stop-all-covid-vaccinations-says-uk-cardiac-surgeon-who-once-promoted-them/
27/09/2022: Lots of
Russians clearly do not support Putin’s war on
27/09/2022: Hard to believe. Sad I can’t apply: https://chaninicholas.com/careers/
26/09/2022: Astonishing images from Jupiter: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11238745/NASAs-Juno-probe-snaps-stunning-photo-Jupiters-clouds-look-like-frosting-cupcake.html
26/09/2022: Who knew?
“According to scientists measuring cumulative energy demand (CED), production
of the average lithium-ion battery uses three times more electrical energy compared
to a generic battery.” So, what happens when the grid collapses? https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/25/rafes-roundup-25-sept/
26/09/2022: The EU is the biggest economy in the world yet their fertilizer production is down 70%. We are going into a very lean time for the world’s food production: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/just-like-that-european-fertilizer-production-down-70/
25/09/2022: Very well done: https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/kayak-angler-catches-marlin-hawaii/
25/09/2022: Back from the dead: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-aphrodisiac-0017316
25/09/2022: Just when I got a new Knee: https://newatlas.com/medical/moximed-misha-shock-absorber-knee-implant/
25/09/2022: Two brothers who couldn’t be less alike. Your remember the rabid commie and anti-Semite Jeremy? Well here’s his brother Piers the climate sceptic: https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/nothing-do-man-astrophysicist-says-climate-cultists-are-gravy-train-make-money
24/09/2022: It
begins, maybe…Big news breaking in
24/09/2022: Just have to hope my wife, Della does not join Peta. Not much risk of that though I suspect: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/peta-calls-for-female-sex-strike-to-save-the-planet-from-storms-caused-by-steak-and-sausages/
24/09/2022: Can
anything save
24/09/2022: Our society cannot survive renewable energy – the wind droughts will kill it: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/22/not-enough-oats-in-the-european-power-supply/
24/09/2022: Wow! Covid vaccines have been shown to be 98 times worse than the disease itself in young adults: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/ethically-unjustifiable-new-harvard-johns-hopkins-study-found-covid-19-vaccines-98-times-worse-disease/
But doctors may not warn you: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/vaccine-news-is-so-good-that-california-state-bans-doctors-from-saying-what-they-think/
23/09/2022: How to scan and share old print photos with your phone. Maybe this is a solution? Get the App 'PhotoScan by Google Photos' from the Google Play Store. The App takes several photos of the original and puts them together, finds the edges corrects them & etc. Scan the photos during the daylight maybe on the verandah. You don't want reflected light from an overhead lamp etc. If you have a decent phone camera this will make a beautiful photo in seconds. You will probably have to save it to Google drive and share it from there eg by email. It works: https://www.google.com/photos/scan/
23/09/2022: Just a
year ago really: Western civilization is sliding off the cliff, and most people
in the western world aren't even aware of that…Do you think there's any
chance of getting Taliban commanders to teach at
23/09/2022: Maybe we can do something to destroy the green blob after all: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/winning-antitrust-laws-slow-down-the-climate-plans-of-monster-cartel-of-un-and-global-bankers/
23/09/2022: Without science and engineering we are just children playing with someone else’s toys: https://americanmind.org/features/florida-versus-davos/five-myths-about-china/
22/09/2022: More Michael Faradays please: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-faraday-is-worth-1-000-faucis-science-electricity-computer-dynamo-equity-fairness-stem-pandemic-pew-trust-experts-11663505143?st=p1602fxqywwa5gr&reflink=article_email_share
22/09/2022: And it isn’t just Merkel who is a commie shill. Most of our Western leaders have taken the thirty pieces of silver: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/angela-merkel-kgb-asset/
22/09/2022: I hope
the past year’s imbroglio in
22/09/2022:
Meanwhile, good news
from the
21/09/2022: Remember when this guy used to be one of them – he has certainly ‘seen the light’: https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-progressives-undermine-civilization?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
21/09/2022: Things have got bad under Biden – don’t expect better under Albanese: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/greatest-loss-of-household-wealth-in-history/
21/09/2022: It’s not just me who is opposed to the sexualisation of children it seems. What is going on here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/gays-groomers-permanently-deplatformed-paypal-venmo/
21/09/2022: ‘I honour
my God; I serve the Queen; I salute the flag.’ We recited this every
morning during school assembly. Though I have
And good luck with that republic Albo – maybe you should have consulted your own members first: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/roy-morgan-poll-huge-increase-in-support-for-the-monarchy-from-labor-voters.html
18/09/2022: Thanks Liz & goodbye to net zero. Fracking here we come: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/netzero-takes-a-hit-in-the-uk-fracking-is-on-and-could-eclipse-north-sea-gas/
18/09/2022: Well said Rafe, “Humanity has a destiny out amongst the stars, but we will not reach them if we allow ourselves to be crushed by this secret society of evil, inbred, globalist conspirator families who have been plotting and working towards the destruction of our nations and our enslavement for centuries. We can win this war of elites versus commoners, but only if everyone who knows these truths speaks out in every way possible to awaken those who remain oblivious to it all.” https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/17/what-is-happening-and-why/
18/09/2022: When
communists engage in this level of cover up you know there is much more to hide
(Christo would have been proud) – I wonder what the real GDP is, for example.
Remember when the
18/09/2022: Trump may be the second
most popular public figure on the planet after Queen Elizabeth – but I
notice there have been conservative victories in
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17/09/2022: NASA finds organic matter ‘treasure’ on Mars: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nasa-rover-finds-organic-matter-treasure-on-mars/
17/09/2022: Viv Forbes (and Geoffrey Chaucer) is so right we are ruled by ‘Parliaments of Fools’: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/our-mate-viv-forbes-on-a-nation-ruled-by-fools.html
17/09/2022: Who’s the king of the castle now? Watch out, the Indians are coming: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/bezos-is-about-to-lose-title-of-worlds-second-richest-man
17/09/2022: Big Brother never had mind control as powerful as the mobile phone and Tik Tok: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/the-worlds-biggest-stealth-propaganda-operation-is-conditioning-your-child-through-their-phone/
16/09/2022: Can anyone tell me what is going on here? I had always believed there was no such thing as a free lunch, but this certainly looks like it. There are lots of these devices. I assume the magnet would ‘go flat’ after a while? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL-7pm__HXk
16/09/2022: Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore explains how the environment movement was hijacked: https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/09/08/prominent-scientist-dr-patrick-moore-backs-up-claim-that-there-is-no-climate-emergency/ On temperature change, Moore asserts that “the world has been warming since about the year 1700, 150 years before we were using fossil fuels..1700 was the peak of the Little Ice Age, which was very cold and caused crop failures and starvation…Before that, around 1000 A.D. was the Medieval Warm period when Vikings farmed Greenland…[And] before that, around 500 A.D. were the Dark Ages, and before that, the Roman Warm Period when it was warmer than today, and the sea level was 1–2 meters higher than today.”
16/09/2022: Tyranny
in
15/09/2022: Are people finally starting to catch on to the fact that electric vehicles are a terrible idea? https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/down-with-electric-vehicles.php
“If every country achieved its stated ambitious electric-vehicle targets by 2030, the world would save 231 million tons of CO2 emissions. Plugging these savings into the standard United Nations Climate Panel model, that comes to a reduction of 0.0002 degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century.”
15/09/2022: This 31,000 year old amputee’s finding shatters so many notions about the past: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/earliest-amputee-borneo-0017238
15/09/2022: The case for recriminalisation: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-09-09/lgbtqc-groomer-roundup-one-fifth-gen-z-now-queer-entire-2nd-grade-class
15/09/2022: And you thought you had a problem being white: https://news.yahoo.com/albino-hunters-accused-kidnapping-butchering-081821692.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKHZ1e1ri7aa-AVTEM4An4qAGzRucvLkR64eEEQoq59zygh9vzKWyuatWwaIJK4-PE0UN7FWF7hf8PWi2Wx8v7Hds0NBSlqA7eaOvDHNru7UuHKw95mfg8d0ZYTwyNYpHrc6XVMANco0RMCB2pRVT8fDLkQ2l8DSKFob9-QaR358
14/09/2022: ‘Rings of Power’: We watched the first two episodes last night and found them surprisingly good (with some misgivings admittedly). I really like Galadriel. The visual feast, especially the NZ scenery is a delight: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/
14/09/2022: Is there
a serial killer loose in the
14/09/2022: Good news indeed – we have needed to do this for a long, long time: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/good-news-out-of-canada/
14/09/2022: The Ukrainian counter-offensive is at least a propaganda victory so far: https://www.the-sun.com/news/6211083/russian-troops-surrendering-ukraine-helicopter-blasts-targets/
13/09/2022: I think
this is a fair point, “There are only nine meals between mankind and anarchy.”
And that the current ‘energy crisis’ and ‘energy transformation’ will prove the
point. I suspect we will have a military takeover of
13/09/2022: 200 years
since
13/09/2022: I would
not have believed it but maybe the Russians bit off more than they could chew
in
13/09/2022: We must save the Great Nullarbor Coral Reef: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/corals-covered-australian-desert-maybe-they-will-grow-back-if-we-screw-in-the-right-light-globe/
12/09/2022: Just when I had a knee replacement they come up with a better option: https://scitechdaily.com/fixing-knee-pain-new-cartilage-substitute-is-better-than-the-real-thing/
12/09/2022: If there really are 70,000+ deaths from covid vaccines it ought to be investigated: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/group-doctors-scientists-professionals-34-countries-declare-international-medical-crisis-due-diseases-deaths-caused-covid-19-vaccines/
12/09/2022: The joys of electric car ownership: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/16-reasons-why-you-need-to-buy-an-electric-car/
12/09/2022: On the
11/09/2022: Electricity
prices in the
11/09/2022: A big
step forward towards sustained fusion in
11/09/2022: Why ‘personality tests’ are bunkum: https://iai.tv/articles/the-truth-about-the-myersbriggs-personality-test-auid-2235?_auid=2020
11/09/2022: Leave the kids alone for goodness’ sake: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/popular-preschool-animated-series-peppa-pig-introduces-lesbian-polar-bear-couple/
10/09/2022: Icebreaker’s merino wool caps are the best, and they are on special right now. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/09/08/best-deer-hunters-cap-best-ultralight-cap/
10/09/2022: What a piece of s—t Adam Bandt (and the Greens) is/are. Hopefully we shall soon see the last of them: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/greens-leader-slammed-over-queen-elizabeth-ii-tweet/news-story/2bb699604360612e86f76240796459dd
10/09/2022: Turns out the movement of heat outwards along the meridians is the largest driver of climate change and that ‘greenhouse gases’ have almost nothing to do with it: “Opposite to what is generally believed, when less energy is transported poleward the planet gets warmer. The planet warmed after 1850 due to a reduction in MT, followed by the increase in GHGs since the mid-20th century. While global warming is likely to continue over most of the 21st century, the rate is unlikely to increase, and might even decrease, disproving nearly every climate projection. Recent warming appears to be multicausal, caused by changes in solar activity and MT, besides GHGs. It is thus very unlikely that the decarbonization of the economy will have any significant effect on climate, although it could have a great effect on the transfer of wealth from some agents in the global economy to others, even if its total effect on wealth creation is negative.” Canute imitators are going to make us very poor however: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/04/the-sun-climate-effect-the-winter-gatekeeper-hypothesis-vi-meridional-transport-is-the-main-climate-change-driver/
10/09/2022: I think Tucker nails it here, “The
When the
The British did give the world the Magna Carta and habeas corpus and free
speech. They helped end the transatlantic slave trade, as well as the ritual
murder of widows in
09/09/2022: Farewell you great lady, Lillibet. The very last Seekers’ song just released (for Judith’s memorial) is a fitting tribute I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwhXSsjHz3k
09/09/2022: Who knew?
The earliest boomerang was found in
09/09/2022: The (new) green solution to being cold – so much better than oil, gas and coal (presumably a bad translation - original is behind a paywall): https://news-universe.com/2022/09/07/europe-is-sacrificing-its-ancient-forests-for-energy/
09/09/2022: Having fun at the expense of the new Puritans: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/dont-eat-the-bugs/
08/09/2022: 10 More Environmentally Friendly Alternatives To Using Electricity: https://babylonbee.com/news/10-more-environmentally-friendly-alternatives-to-using-electricity
08/09/2022: Nigel Farage, Britain’s next PM – you can only hope: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/nigel-farage-cowardly-conservatives-are-letting-the-marxist-woke-mob-destroy-our-free-speech-now-its-time-to-take-a-stand/news-story/ec2ee72fa158d346414edaaf2ee9e247 ‘
08/09/2022: Peter Smith is absolutely right: Labor and the Greens’ ‘Renewable Energy Plans’ are just insane. Read why – and weep: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/09/some-ohm-truths-about-the-great-green-fantasy/
08/09/2022: One big step to fight dementia: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/09/06/step-count-dementia-risk-study/5831662487084/
07/09/2022: Just what I need: Robo-bug: A rechargeable, remote-controllable cyborg cockroach: https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-robo-bug-rechargeable-remote-controllable-cyborg-cockroach.html
07/09/2022: One step
closer to growing humans in a test-tube – but won’t we be replaced by AI soon
anyway: https://theconversation.com/worlds-first-synthetic-embryo-why-this-research-is-more-important-than-you-think-188217
07/09/2022: The limbo rock of universities: Just how low can ‘university education’ go? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/melbourne-uni-course-certificate-in-how-to-run-aboriginal-welcome-ceremony.html
07/09/2022: The price of lithium has risen 289% this year alone. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium It has gone up from US$2000 a tonne in 2002 to over US$75,000 a tonne in July 2022 mainly fueled just by its (relatively small) demand in consumer electronics. It is rapidly becoming a ‘precious metal: Silver is $800,000 per tonne, copper $33,999, Nickel $21,000, Lead $2200 whilst Iron is $109! Such rises occur because things are rare and their production cannot be ramped up. Estimates are that it would take over 9,000 years to mine enough lithium (supposing deposits existed) to transform the world’s hydrocarbon cars into electric cars - but as they would need to be replaced again approximately ten years later this 9,000 years of effort would have to be reproduced again in ten years. Yet some countries are mandating electric cars in less than ten years time. Does anyone see how this is either sane or possible? I think this is akin to the C17th Dutch ‘tulip bubble’ and is mainly a vehicle for the rich to get even richer at our expense.
06/09/2022: An AI won an art competition – what’s next? https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/09/03/an-ai-program-won-an-art-competition-does-it-matter-n494347
06/09/2022: Just an accident of history that the world was saved for democracy – in reality few people value freedom – as we still see today: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/check-out-this-polling-data-on-wwii/
In contrast we have
at least some good news out of
06/09/2022: I think this is good news but I am fearful of having the test – meanwhile I reel from the bad news this morning that one of my cousins has succumbed to this awful blight: https://scitechdaily.com/new-device-can-detect-alzheimers-17-years-in-advance/
06/09/2022: Just another of the contradictions of green policies: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/china_enslaving_uyghur_muslims_to_produce_the_solar_panels_we_import
06/09/2022: Something I did not know: Oil is a renewable resource. Many people do not realise that old oil and gas fields refill (or recharge) over time because much ‘fossil fuel’ is produced by abiotic natural processes within the earth – and will therefore never run out: https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/oilfieldsrefilling10apr05.shtml & https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Are-Oil-Wells-Recharging-Themselves.html
Nothing in the renewable world will work without hydrocarbons: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/05/abundant-abiotic-hydrocarbons-and-useful-idiots/
05/09/2022: Camp chairs have been a thing for a long time: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65004
05/09/2022: Green child Abuse. Thank you Neil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QnmuAmOgRA
05/09/2022: The ultimate horror movie: A ubiquitous digital panopticon. The greatest tyranny of all time is already being installed. Be very afraid: https://richardsonpost.com/harryrichardson/28340/the-scariest-movie-i-have-ever-seen/
05/09/2022: This was
a common occurrence in 1929 as the magic bubble burst and a sense of reality
re-established itself. Today the world is sitting on the biggest economic
bubble in recent history with most of the
04/09/2022: Kim Beazley Snr. in 1970: ‘When I joined the Labor Party, it contained the cream of the working class. But as I look about me now, all I see are the dregs of the middle class. When will you middle-class perverts stop using the Labor Party as a cultural spittoon?’ For many years now this has been my view exactly. I remember a night at an ALP meeting in Bendigo in just such a gentleman’s house (ie the ‘cream of the working class’) when I began to separate myself from it too, perceiving how the new political class who had never worked with their hands (or minds) to make themselves (or others) better disdained his modest achievements, disdained his working for one’s and society’s betterment - and offered simply redistribution and Government control as the only worthwhile goal. Today’s ALP is way Left of where the Communist Party of Australia was as I grew up. The Greens are even more evilly Left of them, perhaps even left of Mao & Pol Pot in that they would see most of humanity gone. Meanwhile the Chinese Communist Party is way to the Right of the ALP – I fear even to the right of today’s Liberal Party! Where can a working class Conservative’s vote go? Perhaps the Liberal Democrats?
04/09/2022: Just imagine that: corals have been surviving worse things for countless millions of years: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/its-almost-like-corals-have-been-doing-this-for-millions-of-years-90-bleached-but-recovered-in-just-two-years/
04/09/2022: With a 92% efficacy against death from covid the ban of ivermectin ought to be viewed as a crime against humanity. Dan and like demagogues should be tried and hanged for this crime: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/people-need-held-accountable-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-attacks-biden-regime-blocking-life-saving-treatment-ivermectin-covid-19/
04/09/2022: “If only
03/09/2022: Edwardian
03/09/2022: If you can’t afford a boat, how about a giant pumpkin: https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/crop-production/squash-record-nebraska-pumpkin-grower-paddles-846-lb-pumpkin-missouri
03/09/2022: It’s not about Right and
Left … It’s about Right and Wrong. No. I don’t think Greens should be allowed
to kill eagles to ‘save the planet’. This is the
03/09/2022: If this is how bad things have to get to ‘save the world’ imagine what would happen if people realised it was all b-----t: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/energy-pain-the-richest-countries-in-the-world-may-not-eat-hot-meals-people-start-burning-their-bills-in-the-street/
02/09/2022: Best Tarp Seam Stitch: If you are joining ultralight waterproof material such as Membrane Silpoly as I am just now to make a new version of my 7 x 7 Poncho Multi Tarp this stitch seems to work better than anything I have ever come across before. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/09/02/best-tarp-seam-stitch/
02/09/2022: Malcolm Roberts takes aim at the cost of the green madness: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/26/aussie-senator-malcolm-roberts-slams-false-net-zero-inflation-claims/
02/09/2022: The world needs ditchdiggers, too: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37958-A-Living-Wage.html#extended
02/09/2022: Longtermism – another interesting ‘philosophy’ which ‘reasons’ that someone else’s rights are more important than your own. You will be hearing more about this. Is this actually any different from communism: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-effective-altruists-fear-the-ai-apocalypse/ar-AA11hiIN
01/09/2022:
01/09/2022: You think it won’t happen
here? Inflation over 20% in the
01/09/2022: First
31/08/2022: Problems charging your EV. You will note (RACV figures) that the cheapest and simplest option will see your car plug in for nearly 12 hours drawing an additional 2.4-3.7 kW per hour, or with additional wiring you can charge at 7kW per hour for 6 hours or even 22kW per hour for 2 hours. All of you will see immediately that whichever way you cut it you will be using over 40 Kw more electricity per day to charge your EV. Our electricity bill tells me that the average household consumption (at present) is 10 kW (I person household and 16 kw (2 & etc) so charging an EV is an enormous increase in household electricity consumption (2-4 times at least!) that has to be produced basically from ‘thin air! Is this the greatest ‘pea and shell’ game you ever saw? An all of this electricity will have to be provided at night (when there is no solar)! https://www.mynrma.com.au/cars-and-driving/electric-vehicles/charging/ev-home-charge
31/08/2022: Posted this in 2017. Nothing about it has changed; indeed the situation has only got worse:
31/08/2022: The death stats are interesting: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/death-stats-for-israel-are-not-good/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/excess-deaths-rise-in-germany-too-peaking-in-the-same-months-medical-experiments-peak/
31/08/2022: Still enormous doubt over
who’s winning or losing in the
30/08/2022: Must Watch - Neil Oliver continues to call the elites out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTA90R9FMoQ
30/08/2022: Gone are the days when you could just slip a new engine in with a morning’s work and at a cost of a couple of day’s wages (as I did with my Subies for over thirty years). A new EV battery will cost you more than you normally pay for a new car: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/29000-to-replace-batteries-in-chevy-volt-thanks-obama/
30/08/2022: Progress. Instead of growing food they will make this stuff out of food. The people who used to eat the food will just have to adapt to going without. Dieting is good for you, right? https://www.producer.com/news/renewable-diesel-poised-to-overtake-biodiesel/
30/08/2022: Is there another way? I doubt this woman’s views would go down well with the current push to create ever more crèches (al la 1984?): https://americanmind.org/features/rule-not-by-lies/lean-out/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
29/08/2022: 7 x 7 Poncho Multi Tarp:
This is an addendum to the post Secrets
of Shelter. I know some of you just didn't believe my claims about the 7' x
7' tarp so I dug out my old one for a bit of a photo shoot. This 7' x
7' tarp can be used as a ground or hammock shelter or as a poncho - and weighs
just over 120 grams. Read more: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/08/28/7-x-7-poncho-multi-tarp/
29/08/2022: I know Paul Keating said
the same many years ago but “Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For
His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree”. Another Greens (commie) policy of
course like freezing rents for two years. Duh: https://babylonbee.com/news/hard-working-plumber-looking-forward-to-paying-his-for-his-neighbors-gender-studies-degree
29/08/2022: “The future belongs to
the people who show up, as they say. It seems doubtful that will be the
greenies.” https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/a-new-devil-of-a-problem-for-planet-earth-vanishing-humans/
29/08/2022: Modern warfare has become more and more like a video game. I know it has always been horrific but some of this technology seems to give soldiers very little chance: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/videos-ground-war-ukraine-ukraine-attacks-thwarted/
28/08/2022: Remember ‘The
Precautionary Principle’ which the Left trots out when they don’t want to do
something (however sensible)? In one sense it has something going for it – we
should not launch into a major change unless it can be proven that it will
work! A ‘trial’ or a ‘prototype should be adopted first and its results
assessed soberly. This was done before we adopted electrification (believe it
or not). Cost
28/08/2022: ‘We the people’ – what a
great leader of the free world Ronald Reagan was. We the people desperately
need new conservative leaders like him, indeed a new conservatism before there
is nothing left to conserve. Make the time to listen to this farewell speech,
one of his finest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjECSv8KFN4&t=763s
28/08/2022: If the recent floods did not topple Xi maybe the current drought will? Anyway, something must: https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/the-extreme-heatwave-wreaking-havoc-across-china/
28/08/2022: Tell me why all this ought not be utterly illegal: https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-parents-of-10-year-old-trans-model-plan-for-minors-gender-surgeries-at-age-16
27/08/2022: Secrets of Shelter: I deem that shelter is the most important primary need which you can supply yourself. You certainly must master the secrets of shelter.
No doubt all of you have heard about Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs'. You will (perhaps) note that amongst the four 'physiological' needs he lists is 'Homeostasis', ie being able to maintain a constant temperature, something you may take for granted being a mammal - but that only means you have not been put to the test! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/08/26/secrets-of-shelter/
27/08/2022: Why we have biosecurity –
this is how a rabid fox behaves. Della and I both had our rabies shots
before we went to
27/08/2022: Is there anything more
you need to know about ‘The Voice’ than that Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine
are against it and Malcolm Turnbull is in favour: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/woke_elites_racially_abuse_warren_mundine_for_opposing_the_voice
27/08/2022: Sound planning- maybe we should just wait 29,000 years? “To make enough wind turbines, solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles to replace fossil fuels for (just) 20 years, the world would need just under one billion tonnes of nickel.
In 2019, the world only mined 2.4 million tonnes of nickel – meaning it would take around 400 years to produce enough to go net zero at current rates of production.
The same situation faces copper miners.
To replace fossil fuels with renewables, the world would need over 4.5 billion tonnes of copper.
But again, the world only mined 24 million tonnes of copper in 2019 - meaning it would take 189 years to produce enough copper to go net zero at current rates of production.
The situation gets even more dire when it comes to lithium, cobalt and rare earth metals.
It would take 9920 years to produce enough lithium to go net zero at current rates of production.
It would take 1733 years to produce enough cobalt to go net zero – most of which would come from Chinese-owned, child mines in the Congo.
In fact, for germanium - a very rare but very important element required for renewable energy technologies – it would take over 29,000 years to produce enough germanium required to go net zero.
So, going "green" will require the biggest mining boom in history.” – and the Greens will be in favour of that, won’t they? https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/it_will_take_400_years_to_produce_enough_nickel_to_run_the_world_on_renewable_energy
26/08/2022: The Disappearance of
Delicious Edible Apples. The fresh food situation has always been worse in
country areas for some reason. Unless you have your own fresh produce what is
available in the (few) supermarkets always seems to be sourced from the same
wholesaler (I assume) and generally is about the standard of stock food. Often
poor quality stock food at that. Apples, my favourite daily fruit, is a case in
point. None of the supermarkets seems able to present the fresh apples in a
chiller so that even if they had been top quality before, after a day or so of
sitting on a warm shelf being picked over by customers they are just about
inedible. I usually try to get around this by shopping for them in the mornings
just after they have restocked the shelves and I try to pick from the bottom
layer. In the past this usually got me a handful of edible apples – but no
more. For the last several
26/08/2022: Must get one of these for Della: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/the-perfect-gift-for-your-hot-conservative-wife/
26/08/2022: Here’s the result of
26/08/2022: Dire: Macron warns that the world as we knew it has ended. We certainly have a big fight on our hands to preserve our freedom and lifestyle: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/macron-warns-end-abundance-carefree-time/
25/08/2022: Wonnangatta Murders: So,
police claim to have ‘further evidence’ against Lynn but neither he, his
lawyer Dermot Dan (whom I know) nor the public knows what it is after nearly a
year since he was arrested which frankly is not good enough. The alleged
‘firearms evidence’ is tantalising. Apparently we will have to wait until
January to learn more. Terrible. Meanwhile a presumed innocent man (like Pell)
is in gaol. I strongly suspect that they still don’t have enough to actually
charge this bloke (who may indeed be the culprit, I admit). The fact that they
have been unwilling to provide his barrister with the surveillance material or
the ballistics’ evidence (after nearly twelve months – evidence which they
ought to have had before they arrested him), indicates to me that there is
nothing there. I suspect the ballistics will come down to some spent shells
near the campsite (where we know
25/08/2022: 1971 was the crucial year
when everything started to go wrong. Until then I could buy quite a nice
house in
24/08/2022:
24/08/2022: Do you still remember
when churches never burned down – or had ‘faulty wiring’ problems? I
certainly do. Here in
24/08/2022: A weird world our WEF masters want us to live in. I’m glad I won’t be around to see it: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/world-economic-forum-recommends-humans-become-cyborgs-implant-brain-chips-solid-rational-reasons-children-microchipped/
24/08/2022: A big ‘Hurrah’ to Ron De Santis, “Never ever give up. We must fight the Woke in our schools, fight the Woke in our businesses. We must fight the Woke in government agencies. We can never ever surrender to government agencies.” https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/ron-de-santis-fires-a-rocket-at-corporate-woke-media/
23/08/2022: Is this a life-saver or not? Perfect and peelable hard-boiled eggs every time: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37921-Perfect-and-peelable-hard-boiled-eggs.html
23/08/2022: Yarmuk: the day Islam swallowed the West. Read it and weep: https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2022/08/20/today-in-history-islam-swallows-up-the-western-world-after-the-battle-of-yarmuk-n1622689
23/08/2022:
23/08/2022: About that ecar…Just a for example, “Car manufacturers admit that there is only enough lithium for 14 million ecars while the World Economic Forum says the world needs 5 billion to get to Net Zero.”: https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/lithium-lies/
23/08/2022: “I’ve already seen the best of
22/08/2022: When ‘unknown cause of death’ becomes the leading cause of death (up sevenfold): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/comedy-break-jp-sears/
22/08/2022:
22/08/2022: Is James Webb going to kill the Big Bang? I have been reading a lot about this lately, for example that folks claim to have already identified galaxies which are (far) older than the universe or that others they are seeing are themselves too old to have begun after the universe did. A fundamental change in physics/cosmology may be about to begin: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/08/17/astronomers-looking-at-webb-what-if-the-big-bang-didnt-happen-n490341
22/08/2022: Are young women just more
gullible, is PC just for girls, or do they yearn to be ‘victims’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/political-correctness-is-for-girls-the-bubble-of-woke-has-a-grip-on-young-women/
In a similar vein: https://babylonbee.com/news/church-puzzled-by-low-attendance-at-its-sit-around-and-talk-about-your-feelings-mens-conference
21/08/2022: Poem for today. (We have
had a grandchildren’s sleepover at our house).
The Childrens' Hour
Henry
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.
I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and then a silence:
Yet I know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall!
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!
They climb up into my turret
O'er the arms and back of my chair;
If I try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the
Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!
I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away!
21/08/2022: Yes, we can take our
power back: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/19-us-states-fight-back-against-blackrock-the-political-climate-police-disguised-as-a-monster-investment-fund/
NB: Blackrock is spending big on useless batteries in Oz: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/like-a-banker-belt-n-road-plan-blackrock-give-australia-batteries-we-dont-need-with-esg-strings-attached/
21/08/2022:
21/08/2022: Let’s just vote to
continue to be one nation, not divide
20/08/2022: "I've had a lot of
worries in my life, most of which never happened." Mark Twain
20/08/2022: Back in the 1950s
20/08/2022: A major fallacy of the EV thing is thinking electricity is both ‘free’ and ‘clean’. Everything has a cost (not least the quadruple cost of buying an EV – maybe double that when you consider their likely lifetime) but the huge environmental (and human lives) cost of making and then recycling them (well there is no plan actually) almost certainly means that they would not be ‘carbon neutral’ or ‘free’ even if they gave them away and electricity cost nothing. But it currently costs approx 50 Euros to charge a standard 100kw EV battery (which will soon rise by 320%) - and that will get you about 200 km! It gets worse after that! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/18/charging-electric-cars-like-spilling-liters-of-petrolhidden-losses-during-charging-are-huge/
20/08/2022: Our ABC, the porn channel. Shut them down: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/their-abc-outdoing-themselves-with-this-voyeuristic-rot.html
19/08/2022: Laser spacecraft propulsion is coming. “On the eventual upper end, a full scale system (50-100 GW) will propel a wafer-scale spacecraft with a meter class reflector (laser sail) to about c/4 in a few minutes of laser illumination allowing hundreds of launches per day or 100,000 missions per year. Such a system would reach the distance to Mars (1 AU) in 30 minutes, pass Voyager I in less than 3 days, pass 1,000 AU in 12 days, and reach Alpha Centauri in about 20 years.” https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/08/technology-to-make-interstellar-missions-possible-and-affordable.html
19/08/2022: How can three declining trend periods add up to an increasing trend? Maths is weird: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/17/fun-with-trends/
19/08/2022: Yes, the Libs have to dump Guy and damned soon, but have they got a true conservative they can put in his place? Please come back Jeff Kennett, Bernie Finn: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/matthew-guy-is-literally-history/
19/08/2022: Seems to me that if
18/08/2022: The best female swimmer in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sgjc29QCGo
18/08/2022: Maybe there are no higher or lower creatures: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/evolution-march-of-progress/
18/08/2022: The new Concorde –
imagine being able to fly return to
18/08/2022: So, why would the
presence of foot and mouth disease in
17/08/2022: Good News – hearing aids may soon get to be ‘self-fitting’ and much cheaper: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/16/23307974/hearing-aids-over-counter-fda-apple-bose
17/08/2022: Frankly I am shocked that ‘the average person tells four lies a day’. I was always taught never to lie: https://www.studyfinds.org/average-person-tells-four-lies-daily/
17/08/2022: Interesting Rasmussen Poll: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/interesting-poll-from-rasmussen/ Here’s Tucker’s take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74lDvZ1IPj4 If the FBI (etc) really believed Trump still had the nuclear codes they would hardly have waited 18 months to act.
17/08/2022: Here is a very big whoopsie about human produced CO2 (which I admit I hadn’t spotted. Humans simply cannot have ‘caused’ the increase in CO2 which (if it ) has occurred because human CO2 is only 5% of all sources of CO2 (and clearly ‘stays’ in the atmosphere for exactly the same amount of time as ‘natural’ CO2) so it cannot possible add up to 32% as the IPCC (greens etc) claim: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/16/the-impact-of-human-co2-on-atmospheric-co2-summary/
Also note:
16/08/2022: Only the modeled climate responds. Why won’t the real climate play along and boil us like frogs: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/08/a-clear-case-of-hot-hotter-hoodwinked/
16/08/2022: With her popularity now at 30% hopefully we will soon see the back of ‘the wicked witch of the West’ aka Jacinda Ardern. You would hope to see the same thing happening to all the vile socialists we have running things over here too…if only so many of the ‘conservatives’ weren’t trying to beat them at their own game: https://www.rebelnews.com/jacinda_ardern_tipped_to_be_dumped_as_pm
16/08/2022: Nuclear fusion achieved
in the lab at
16/08/2022: We spent more money on education, remember? Maybe not good value for money. These people vote too: https://moonbattery.com/education-system-produces-staggering-ignorance/
15/08/2022: The escalating prices of (especially) lithium and cobalt make EVs much more expensive than conventional cars. The petrol F-150 for example costs US$33K today but its EV version will be at least $20K more expensive. And you have to accept that a couple of three poor people somewhere have died in order to produce it! https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/question-of-the-day/qotd-why-arent-evs-becoming-more-affordable-44496610
Good one: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/wisdom-of-the-ages.html
15/08/2022: First they claimed that they were after menus and other silly things but now they have gone even sillier and claim Trump had the nuclear war codes still in his pockets: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/code-red-for-the-deep-state.php
15/08/2022: In the
15/08/2022: Vegetarianism is not so great after all (particularly if you are a woman): https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/11/vegetarian-women-fracture-hips-study-bone-healthv & https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/plant-based-diet-is-not-so-virtuous-or-healthy-says-new-book/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter
14/08/2022: Short season crops, ie things which produce a harvest in as little time as possible are something you should be giving serious thought to. You need to be collecting seeds from such plants (not F1 hybrids from which no useful seeds can be collected). Many varieties of all the common vegetables were long ago developed for use in colder climes or to produce multiple crops in warmer ones. ‘Diggers’ is a good source. The mandated increases in the cost of energy (and the really desperate coming shortage if urea) will mean that food will become scarce or very expensive. We are building two greenhouses which will give us an abundance of ‘summer’ crops over winter and really heat dependent crops (eg melons) over summer here in Southern Vic where it is difficult to grow such things.Our vegie garden is also completely planted out already and will be expanded – as will our orchards. I notice greenhouses and seeds are already in short supply. When the urea finally dries up and the trucks stop bringing the produce down from the North things will get tough. Time to get out into the back yard with a hoe.
You can get your plants started early with a $10 propagator next to a window. Here you see several varieties of tomato, eggplant and capiscum already up. They will be in the greenhouse in a bit over a week. Some will produce crops by the end of September!
14/08/2022: The Ukrainians may be taking awful losses but they are still fighting back it seems: https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-long-anticipate-southern-counteroffensive-begin-bang-crimea/
14/08/2022: History almost always
beats ‘science’, but let’s hope that the worst times are behind us because we
are now better able to adapt. It was much warmer than today in the
not-s0-distant past. They used to grow wine in
14/08/2022: After 33 years the fatwa has finally come for Salman Rushdie for the terrible sin of pointing out that the ‘perfect book’ has some truly evil passages in it and that the ‘perfect man’ was anything but – ie a mass murderer and child rapist. I applaud Macron’s statement of support, “For 33 years, Salman Rushdie has embodied freedom and the fight against obscurantism. He has just been the victim of a cowardly attack by the forces of hatred and barbarism. His fight is our fight; it is universal. Now more than ever, we stand by his side.”: https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/author-salman-rushdie-stabbed/news-story/6821ed8e0b9bcf40bba3ad8c3e1eff51
13/08/2022:
We will definitely take side trips to Long Point (Lighthouse) Hut and
the Slaughter Burn Hut on the way to/from the
13/08/2022: The temperature data –
indeed the whole idea behind it – is faked. It is just not possible to
establish an ‘average’ temperature. Walk around your own back yard with a
thermometer and you will easily find areas where the
13/08/2022: “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population.” This is the way the global elites actually think, deeming themselves enormously more important (for having meetings) than the folks who grow and deliver our food, care for the elderly or clean toilets etc. Now with their war on farming, energy etc they plan to get rid of that vast mass of unnecessary people who will (if they succeed) all be gone in one season – after which they will virtuously sigh, ‘It was not our fault’, as Nazis always have: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/
Stalin called the farmers ‘the enemies of the people’. By expropriating them, the state took control of food production. 7 million starved to death. A century later, the WEF is opening the ‘war on farmers’. https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-8-6-net-zero-is-not-just-for-carbon-emissions-now-its-nitrogen
13/08/2022: This snake Kean (and Matthew Guy et al) are what is wrong with the Liberal Party. A conservative Party has to represent what ordinary Australians think and want: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/green_matt_kean_to_guide_nsw_liberals_to_electoral_disaster
It’s not just a leadership change that’s needed though, but a complete change of direction. As its slogan a re-awakened Liberal Party ought to adopt Tony’s old slogan, ‘Climate Change is Crap’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/matthew-guy-and-a-history-of-lastminute-leadership-switches/news-story/a2ea8d3ee3542f9c4d3df18c9db992cc
12/08/2022: It would be good if we spent more time talking about important matters as eminent physicist Sir Roger Penrose does here: https://www.whyarewehere.tv/people/roger-penrose/
12/08/2022: The Greens are no different from this today. Nazis. They have all sorts of policies which would starve (at least) half the world’s people to death while at the same time advocating all sorts of animal libber and national parks nonsense. "At the edge of a forest, German soldiers point their guns at rows of naked people who follow the Jewish religion. Among them are young mothers clutching their babies. The shots echo through the woods and the dead bodies fall into the ground. Down the road, while this is happening, their German army comrades are busy establishing nature walks and bird sanctuaries and planting trees. The Nazis conducted horrific experiments on children (I have seen footage so upsetting it can’t be shown on TV) but at the same time they banned medical experiments on animals. The same Nazi monsters who committed crimes of unimaginable barbarity also advocated vegetarianism, organic agriculture, forest preservation and homeopathic healthcare. How can we possibly explain this? What was the connection between the inhuman brutality of the Nazis and their gushing idealization of ‘Nature’?" http://www.martindurkin.com/blogs/nazi-greens-inconvenient-history
12/08/2022: The Great Barrier Reef is nearly as big as Victoria ie it is pretty hard to miss, yet it did not exist (where it is now) during the last Ice Age – just a little while ago, and will not during the next, not so far away now either. The sea level was over 50 metres lower then. Corals exist in shallower water than that. So when folks tell you ‘the science is settled’ re some political decision they want make ie to control your behaviour in some way eg whether you can go for a drive in the country, you should be very skeptical indeed. Scepticism used not to be thought a very bad thing not so long ago but rather a default mental state which helped one to navigate to the truths of the world: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/healthy-reef-defies-dubious-science/
11/08/2022: Tony Abbott could well have said, ‘Apres Moi le deluge’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/labors-climate-bill-is-an-economic-precipice/
11/08/2022: Just imagine the urban mega fires we will have as EVs spread – and the toxic pollution downwind (far worse than any CO2): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/100-evs-mysteriously-destroyed-in-fire-in-india/
11/08/2022: Time to go back to your old stainless steel frypan: https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/forever-chemicals-linked-to-liver-cancer-in-first-human-study/
11/08/2022: Good Lord – maybe Trudeau is Castro’s son. He certainly behaves like it anyway. In similar news Albo admits he is a bastard (Who knew?) but who is his real father? A prize will be offered: https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-dad-nobody-has-debunked-anything-4db6fc8a9042
10/08/2022: A fine birthday present from Bunnings. We went in to Midvalley to have a birthday lunch and thought to buy some seedlings for the vegie garden from Bunnings while we were there. As well we scored this excellent load of 4” x 2” x 8’ steel quite free - probably over $500 worth. Well on the way to our next shed right there:
10/08/2022: Way back
in 2013 I wrote this. The situation has become worse since then. The Green aim
to reduce the world population by half or three-quarters is moving swiftly into
place spearheaded by the attack on Nitrogen and farming: Green
Deaths per annum amount to millions worldwide: Malaria (where the unnecessary
& illegitimate ban on DDT cost over a million lives pa for thirty+ years),
support for biofuels (200,000+ pa from starvation as we burn food rather than
allow the poor to eat it), opposition to food irradiation (100s of 1000s pa
from food poisoning pa), opposition to nuclear power (deaths from radon, Carbon
14, coal mining etc), opposition to GM crops, diversion of money (from eg
health, shelter, food) to global warming ‘mitigation’, opposition to Western
farming methods (& especially in the Third World = mass starvation),
support for national parks before people…These folk are simply the most evil
bastards ever (making Stalin, Hitler, Mao etc look like patsies). And it is not
just people whom the greens murder in their millions. Animals and plants are
destroyed by their policies in their billions: millions of hectares have been
destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations and generally to grow
‘Biofuels’. Other millions of hectares are routinely destroyed by wildfires
because of their insistence on a completely ‘hands off’ approach to forest
management. At the same time vast numbers of creatures are destroyed by
introduced vermin such as foxes, cats, pigs which they will not allow to be
shot. Add millions of wildlife deaths pa from windfarms and from paving over
land with solar collectors & etc… Astonishing that 8% of voters say they
will still vote for their policies. How can so many folk fail to be able to distinguish
between good and evil?
10/08/2022: Why we should make
Ivermectin available to all. This article is by a Professor of Pathology from
my old University who really knows his stuff. Currently nearly 100 people a day
are dying in
10/08/2022: The
10/08/2022: Alexandra Marshall’s
article on ‘immortal’ nuclear energy is a ‘must-read’. I am not sure how we
will implement it in
09/08/2022: A bad week for female vocalists. Olivia gone now too. I used to run into her for coffee in the student union lots at Newcastle Uni back in the 1960s – this was before she was famous, but just one of the senior staff’s daughters. Her father Bryn Newton-John shared my love of motorbikes. She was just the same age as me. Makes me think about ‘time’s winged chariot’ I can tell you.
09/08/2022: Your Vitamin D levels are crucial: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/handy-tip-vitamin-d-deficiency-causes-chronic-inflammation-which-means-aging-dementia-bad-stuff/
09/08/2022: This is ridiculous and obscene racist cant. How much of ‘our’ country do we need to give away to just one group: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/08/how-to-give-away-half-a-continent/
09/08/2022: Much as the CCP wants to
frame
09/08/2022: Remember how Tony Abbott
won the largest majority in
08/08/2022: The Seekers – the
beginning. I just can’t help but post yet another tribute to Judith and her
amazing band mates. I know there will not be any Parliamentary Condolence
Debate as with Archie Roach. Have we lost what it is to be quintessentially
08/08/2022: If
08/08/2022: Civil disobedience
against the ‘Green Blob’ begins in the
Meanwhile, the Greens here want us to
be conquered by communist
08/08/2022: The earth’s thermostat is just wonderful. Just as the human body temperature does not get warmer as the temperature rises, so too the earth sheds heat in the tropics as the temperature rises keeping the average world temperature within a very narrow .5C range. Amazing. Thanks Willis: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/07/putting-it-into-reverse/
07/08/2022: Farewell Judith Durham 1943-2022. What a voice. Like most of my generation this is how I will always remember her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpd_9l9w4RI
07/08/2022: Curiosity – what a great little rover: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/05/ten-years-of-curiosity-on-mars/
07/08/2022: Just like the bee
apocalypse, the monarch butterfly apocalypse that wasn’t: https://www.wired.com/story/is-there-good-news-for-monarch-butterflies-scientists-disagree/
07/08/2022: The Greens – turning the
West into the
06/08/2022: Time for some good news: https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/cognitive-decline-can-be-avoided-with-simple-everyday-exercises-new-study-suggests/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
06/08/2022: On the origin of TANSTAAFL: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/08/27/free-lunch/
06/08/2022: Snowy 2.0 (like all the batteries) will be a dismal failure - and now at $22 billion for just 2000 megawatts (Think Hazelwood)! If they really want to replace coal (or petrol) the will have to go nuclear. That is all: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/08/03/how-helpful-is-snowy2-0/
06/08/2022: Just maybe communism is
on the way out in
05/08/2022: One tough old gal. Nice shooting – this is the way to deal with crooks: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/shoot-arm-off-robbers-pick-wrong-socal-liquor-store-rob-video/
05/08/2022: I suspect that if fake meat to save the planet failed because no-one wanted to buy it, fake cars (EVs) will fail too for the same reason: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/planet-saving-fake-meat-burger-meets-hitch/
05/08/2022: I like Viv’s idea of a
Repeal Party.
05/08/2022: The
04/08/2022: Personally I love apples, but here’s how they got such a bad press: https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/forbidden-fruit-0017084
04/08/2022: Jacinta Price is a gem. Hers is the only type of ‘Voice’ needed: https://www.theepochtimes.com/virtue-signaling-wont-solve-problems-faced-by-indigenous-community-nt-senator_4633153.html
04/08/2022: Why only once a year? Breakfast has a big effect on my gender. No wait a minute. I meant my waistline: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/germans-will-be-able-legally-change-their-gender-once-year
04/08/2022: Albanese’s 43% means
everything – in case you didn’t know, and/or you voted for it? So it it not
‘just’ electricity but cars, houses, farming – everything. I can just bet
too that none of the ‘savings’
03/08/2022: 78 Years since the Polish Uprising – just one more good reason why you should not give up your guns: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/long-live-the-warsaw-uprising/
03/08/2022: When vast unexplained geophysical happenings like this can occur we should hardly worry about what the human effect on the climate might be: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/earth-just-started-spinning-faster-ever-and-scientists-dont-know-why
03/08/2022: This looks so promising: https://scitechdaily.com/at-last-an-effective-new-treatment-for-chronic-back-pain/
03/08/2022: Nancy Pelosi – Wow! People are never “wholly bad nor good’ (Milk Wood): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/an-important-and-well-written-opinion-piece-under-nancy-pelosis-name-on-visit-to-taiwan.html
02/08/2022: A Government which robs
Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul! Will
02/08/2022: I suspect David Archibald is right: large ships and tanks are archaic: https://spectator.com.au/2022/07/we-will-win-chinas-war/
02/08/2022: More links between
ancient
02/08/2022: Coal
production just keeps going up: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/might-be-more-coal-burned-in-2022-than-any-other-time-in-human-existence/
Meanwhile
oil just refuses to run out – wherever we are allowed to poke a hole in the
ground ‘black gold’ pops up: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/guyana-suriname-oil-bonanza-to-boost-economies-help-meet-global-demand/
01/08/2022: The Terminator is coming to a battlefield near you: https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ukraine-unveils-mini-terminator-ground-robot-equipped-machine-gun
01/08/2022: Bring it on - Soon we will be able to buy these things to provide carbon-free power to a few thousand homes safely: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/us-regulators-will-certify-first-small-nuclear-reactor-design/
01/08/2022: The ‘great’ reset:
Turning off the heat.
01/08/2022: People are daily
bombarded with the advantages of socialism, but that is all bunk. The free
market is in reality the great liberator. Take these words of
31/07/2022: NASA’s beautiful Jupiter imagery: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasa-spacecraft-images-watercolor-vortices-near-jupiters-north-pole/
31/07/2022: James Lovelock (father of Gaia) came to be a supporter of nuclear power: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-nuclear-power-2021/
31/07/2022: This was what salvation meant once, “I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” It is wrong to steal other people’s goods. Make your own, or at least do no evil – but that is not what is happening. Great evil is what is happening - in the name of good. Rainbows and gaiety (and especially childhood) ought not to have been so debased. Well said Cassie: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/the-other-half-of-the-rainbow/
Peta Credlin’s take is also worth a read: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/peta-credlin-relentless-push-for-inclusivity-is-what-divides-us/news-story/8d1bd0a0ae3a809dd1365b62666f3015
31/07/2022: I think it’s the biggest insider trading scheme and most useless piece of virtue signaling, white elephant hugging nonsense of all time, but I acknowledge you might make (or lose) a fortune out of discreet investments in it: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/30/guest-post-speedbox-electric-vehicles-redux/
30/07/2022: Stunning Footage Of Killer Whales Taking Down A Great White Shark – they are both horrible monsters. I would not want to be in the water with them: https://brobible.com/culture/article/first-ever-footage-orcas-killing-great-white-shark-stunning/
30/07/2022: “Coffee, tea or Bonox?”
Maybe you are old enough to remember the ad? In any case it is still available,
and it is still
30/07/2022: In quarter two this year, we were paying an average price of $264 per megawatt hour instead of the $30 we used to pay before they blew up Hazelwood. And it will only get worse.The green dream is just insane, “It would have been cheaper just to build a whole new power plant last year.”: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/blistering-electricity-prices-it-was-the-quarter-the-whole-market-broke-and-australia-spent-12-7b/
30/07/2022: The WEF and all your ‘friendly’ leftie pollies want to destroy your car. Give them the boot: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/world-economic-forum-urges-public-eliminate-ownership-private-vehicles/
29/07/2022: If
only you got paid for it…decades after
retiring from teaching Della and I still frequently dream about it. I doubt any
of our ex-students (some of whom are nearing their 70s) get any subliminal
benefit from this nocturnal behaviour– though I admit to feeling a desire
sometimes to still correct their spelling and expression in their Facebook
posts!
29/07/2022: How can this even happen? Well, whole Ice Ages have occurred when CO2 was much higher than it is today: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/28/climatologists-embarrassed-increase-in-global-co2-levels-accompanied-by-arctic-sea-ice-growth/
29/07/2022: A big ‘hats off’ to these seven guys. Gays might (or not) be ‘proud’ of their particular bent but there is absolutely no reason anyone else should be, quite the reverse. It is only twenty years since homosexuality was officially deemed a mental disorder and a crime in many jurisdictions, something which the consequences of having taken a more lenient approach to it and related behaviour has been shown was a bad idea which will have to be reversed in future – as has already been done in some countries which have been shocked by the excesses: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/australian-rugby-league-players-boycott-game-forced-wear-lgbt-themed-rainbow-jerseys/
For example, when a public health expert has gay unprotected sex with multiple men over a weekend, contracts monkeypox and gonorrhea but blames ‘the system’, are you sure you voted for gay marriage: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/soros-open-society-foundation-employee-brags-sex-multiple-men-pride-event-blames-government-catching-monkeypox-gonorrhea/
I liked this guy’s ‘take’ on the Manly events: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/the-other-half-of-the-rainbow/
29/07/2022: Remembering two heroes of the Left who lost their lives on this day 228 years ago. Saint-Just & Robespierre. Today’s leftists (Bandt, Albanese, Andrews etc) are no better - and also care only about unbridled power and control, “A nation generates itself only upon heaps of corpses” – never mind ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions,’ rather ‘devil take the hindmost.’ Every day around the world thousands of people are dying as a result of leftist policies (scores in Oz) – and it will get worse: https://fee.org/articles/the-two-monsters-of-the-french-revolution-who-were-consumed-by-power-and-lost-their-heads-on-the-same-day/
Bastiat had it better, “Be
responsible for ourselves. Look to the State for nothing beyond law and order.
Count on it for no wealth, no enlightenment. No more holding it responsible for
our faults, our negligence, our improvidence. Count only on ourselves for our
subsistence, our physical, intellectual, and moral progress!”
28/07/2022: Scientists Unveil Periodic Table Of Genders: “The nation's leading scientists unveiled a new periodic table of genders to help everyone keep track of the evolving gender spectrum. Experts are recommending the table be rolled out to schools across the nation and added to each state's curriculum for grades 9-12. The gender table features 114 genders in addition to a wild card space that represents the limitless imagination of the human mind.”: https://babylonbee.com/news/scientists-unveil-periodic-table-of-genders
28/07/2022: How renewables are
killing
It will be a very grim winter over there this year. Many will die: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/uk-lights-out-for-winter-warning-12m-people-will-be-in-energy-poverty/
28/07/2022: No https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/atheist-labor-senate-president-wants-to-dump-the-lords-prayer.html and Double No: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/no-just-no-double-no-nfw-lest-we-forget.html
28/07/2022: What really drives the climate? Well done (again) Viv, “Man’s coal, cars and cattle are puny compared to what nature can do.” : https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/27900/volcanos-oceans-and-weather/
Meanwhile this is where any warming is coming from – a complete corruption of (climate) science): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/new-surface-stations-report-released-its-worse-than-we-thought/
27/07/2022: Kemi would definitely
have been the membership’s choice for PM, but the membership and the people
never get to choose. Such is democracy: https://www.commonsense.news/p/englands-new-conservative-superstar?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
27/07/2022: The ‘New Puritans’ are everywhere – just as bad as Oliver Cromwell: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/earlier-incarnations-of-puritanism-ended-when-its-proponents-became-laughing-stock/
27/07/2022: Sack Matthew Guy before we are condemned to another four years of Danistan: ‘To lose one election may be regarded as a misfortune: to lose more looks like carelessness.’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/liberals-stop-chasing-the-left-into-the-abyss/
27/07/2022: Regendering archaeology, How absurd: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-dare-you-assume-the-gender-of-ancient-skeletons/
26/07/2022: Digital QR Codes will
become a requirement for ‘normal life’ - First
In
26/07/2022: Will (underground
deposits of) natural hydrogen be the ‘fuel of the future’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/24/could-natural-hydrogen-kill-green-hydrogen/
26/07/2022: 5G is just killing the NBN – just as free enterprise will always outperform socialism I long ago predicted this, before they ever began building Rudd and Turnbull’s wondrous white elephant: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/the-nbn-faces-a-slide-in-demand-as-retailers-ramp-up-the-sales-pitch-on-cheaper-faster-5g/news-story/b494697b1b489a248147d171278414f5
26/07/2022: What a crock of s—t
Plibersek’s State of the Environment Report is. Put together by a bunch of
groupie Aboriginal activists none of whom has an scientific qualification at all!
How a woman knowingly married to a heroin dealer gets to be a Minister of the
Crown is beyond me. Is this the most despicable Government in
25/07/2022: Who invented ice cream - 2500 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastani
25/07/2022: Human history is full of
surprises: These folk could be claiming castles in
25/07/2022: Things are getting serious: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11037405/Fleet-nuclear-submarines-sent-Britain-Australia-warning-China.html?fbclid=IwAR2xbYE3HlPs2ewiET2xGU_aZ2uaKBqJ9Kw09TPO7uJMKlXEzz50z4a99xA
25/07/2022: “If you believe that the
world’s weather is becoming catastrophically – no – apocalyptically
unstable, why would you spend trillions of dollars converting your energy grid
to rely on the weather…?´Alexandra
24/07/2022: There are three maxims of
wisdom (which we should never forget) engraved on the
1. Know thyself.
2.Everything in moderation.
3. Certainty is ruin.
24/07/2022: It’s world Ivermectin
day. We (Oz) have 50-80 deaths a day at the moment from covid and this has
been going on all year now - 11,134 deaths altogether
yet most if not all of these deaths could have been prevented with early
treatment with Ivermectin which you can still buy without a script as a sheep
or horse drench (taking the appropriate amount for your weight - as if you were
a sheep each day for 3-5 days) yet it is still banned as a human treatment in
Vic though it has had 90+% efficacy in preventing death/disease elsewhere (23/07/2022). This is the greatest crime in
24/07/2022:
24/07/2022: ‘It’s a free country’ – remember that refrain? Imagine even having
to take such an offence as this to court! I got in to deep trouble myself a few
years ago (2016) as I had a credit card knife (a ‘prohibited weapon’ – akin to
a machine gun - was the adumbrated charge) in my wallet. Things got
particularly heated when I suggested to the officers that they should be out
looking for the
23/07/2022: The world’s greatest adventure – paleolithic seafaring. Imagine homo erectus and neanderthal venturing to cross hundreds of miles of open ocean – yet they did, up to 800,000 years ago: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/palaeolithic-seafaring
23/07/2022: An
23/07/2022: The recent ‘heat wave’ in
23/07/2022: Ivermectin is clearly better than anything you can get a script for – but look also at Quercetin (which you can buy from health food shops): https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-study-shows-ivermectin-can-reduce
22/07/2022: The ‘Voice’ must be rejected, “Aboriginal activists now want statehood, self-government and an independent legal system for each self-identifying Aboriginal clan that gains native title. And they want the Australian taxpayer to fund it all. This is obviously a program for a radical revision of the Australian federation — all of it in the interests of Aboriginal people, but with no thought about how it could possibly be in the interests of the rest of us.” The history of all this is very interesting (and in fact casts the ‘colonists’ in a very positive light): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/07/the-voice-hiding-its-content-from-referendum-voters/
22/07/2022: The situation in
22/07/2022:
22/07/2022: This is a great graph in response to the ‘warmists’. As you can see in reality the world has rarely been much colder than it is now: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/21/climate-alarmists-respond-to-the-global-warming-pause/
21/07/2022: Please come back Tim
Smith, Bernie Finn etc. We need an
21/07/2022: “It takes real genius to
have an energy crisis in a nation which is the fifth biggest gas exporter in
the world, the highest value coal exporter, and has the largest reserves of
uranium. In the race to the bottom,
21/07/2022:
21/07/2022: Save the forest, save the
pygmies – yet another reason not to buy the latest iPhone. A few thousand
dead in the Ukraine War yet it is in the papers every day (and we simply must
send aid) but a few million dead in the
20/07/2022: ‘Nothing would be more fatal than for the government of states to get into the hands of the experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge: and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who only knows what hurts, is a safer guide than any vigorous direction of a specialised character.’ Winston Churchill: Rainbows and rubber bullets | The Spectator Australia
20/07/2022: Aboriginal history or pre- history is now a completely banned topic I know, but it is much ore recent than you may think. For example we may no longer delve into any details about Mungo Man since he has been stolen and reburied even though he was proved by DNA analysis to have no living descendants. This author delves into the facts of aboriginal origins however and finds many of them to be much more recent than the conventional narrative which sees aboriginals as ‘the oldest living culture’ even though the San of Southern Africa must pip them by at least 100,000 years even if they could prove a continuous occupation of Australia of 50,000 years which they cannot (as Mungo man’s DNA revealed). Some of them arrived much more recently (actually after the earliest European visits astonishingly enough) but mostly we are looking at an arrival circa 3500 years ago. The distribution of their languages proves this point with great certainty. These are (three) astonishing scholarly articles: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-b3d?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-c2d
20/07/2022: Origins of
20/07/2022: So, as Ian Plimer has
also pointed out (25/05/2022)
19/07/2022: Of course they should lock her up: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/norwegian-feminist-faces-3-years-in-prison-for-saying-men-cant-have-babies/
19/07/2022: Why stop with the ‘mentally ill’? Why not get rid of anyone you disagree with? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/canadas_expert_panel_recommends_the_mentally_ill_be_candidates_for_euthanasia.html
19/07/2022: I have been reading with interest Mater’s historical pieces on the ‘aboriginal question’. Misinformation certainly seems to have been the order of the day on this issue: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/16/were-they-that-bad-1-the-beginning/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/16/were-they-that-bad-2-australian-law-as-applied-to-aborigines/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/18/were-they-that-bad-3-flora-and-fauna-act/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/18/were-they-that-bad-3-flora-and-fauna-act/
19/07/2022: You can’t have an effect
without a cause (and vice versa). The satellite data shows the world is (plus)
.06C degrees warmer than the 1975-2022 average though in the tropics it has
been (minus) -.36C cooler than the average. This does not mean that an Ice
Age is imminent but it does mean that ‘global warming’ or ‘climate change’
cannot have ‘caused’ anything in the last 50 years – simply because neither has
occurred, nor are they likely to occur because of CO2 which clearly has about
zero effect on the climate. Note that it was much warmer during the Middle Ages
than today (They grew wine in
18/07/2022: How many crimes are down to drunk and stupid: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oklahoma-man-arrested-alleged-slaying-fisherman-fear-eaten-bigfoot-aut-rcna38065
18/07/2022: Why would you vote for either of these parties? Just no choice but madness: https://www.theepochtimes.com/centre-right-coalition-in-victoria-says-it-will-match-labors-50-percent-2030-emissions-target-and-legislate-it_4602897.html
Where the materials could possibly come from to achieve these absurd ‘net zero’ aims is clearly never a bother for its proponents: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/17/sp-chronic-copper-shortages-have-killed-net-zero-2050/
18/07/2022: Why you should be concerned about Postmodernism though it “is total garbage, not based on any kind of evidence or facts, but also not based on logical argumentation or rationality… because the postmodernists reject literally all of those ideas and concepts. Nonetheless, this is what many of your children are now being taught in public schools. They are being taught, just like the postmodernists want them to be, that there is no such thing as truth. They want your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friends to believe that everything is true, and nothing is true; everything is real, nothing is real; left is right; up is down” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/07/postmodernism_understanding_the_roots_of_wokeness.html
You could also think about how it impacts on ‘indigenous affairs’: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/07-08/imprisoned-in-the-oldest-continuous-culture/
17/07/2022: Waterproofing Paper Maps:
I know the old John Donne map store in Little
I have betimes laminated a paper map eg when traveling in Fiordland etc - but which makes them significantly heavier!) but for several years now I normally either forego a map, place it in a large snap-lock bag or use a phone app such as 'Paper Maps' and downloaded topo maps such as Vicmaps. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/07/16/waterproofing-paper-maps/
17/07/2022: Floods are what happens when
you build your town on a flood plain (without adequate levies) I note
Singleton’s and Maitland’s have held recently. Plenty of other towns (Lismore?)
are yet to get them - though in
17/07/2022: How the ‘real science you can trust’ actually gets done: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/former-pfizer-marketing-vice-president-explains-how-big-pharma-controls-the-medical-establishment/
You can hardly believe something is ‘safe’ when it has this major effect on 40% of women for example: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/surprise-sideeffect-of-the-covid19-vaccine-for-women/news-story/606ed43f418286282123d7a5026d9b31
16/07/2022: Wide Shoes: If life came with a user's manual and we read it (unlikely - given how little we read other such manuals - else we would not have the acronym RTFM) we would probably give up much sooner. Now that I have slipped gracelessly into old age I am constantly coming across things which had they been in the manual would have filled me with trepidation if not despair. But enough of my woes!
Maybe it was because my left knee has been so worn out for so long and I was walking with such a pronounced and protracted limp but my right foot in particular seems to have been growing ever wider. This has been happening for a number of years. I used to wear size 8 UK Keen Targhees which were more than satisfactory when I posted about them here though I moved up from a Size 8UK to and 8.5UK because of toe problems encountered on the South Coast Track in 2014 walking out to Port Craig as I now recall. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/07/15/wide-shoes/
16/07/2022: How far will this CCP control go and how much will it be copied by puppets in the West: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/beijing-residents-forced-wear-regime-issued-electronic-bracelets-traveled-city-will-track-location-monitor-temperature/
16/07/2022: Weather Dependency.
This is the type if world future the environmentalists see as desirable where
all our energy for example will come from such unreliable sources – but the sun
doesn’t always shine , or the wind blow. But surely this was the situation not
just prior to the
15/07/2022: This is the real scientific evidence that there is no problem with CO2: https://www.sec.gov/comments/s7-10-22/s71022-20132171-302668.pdf
15/07/2022: Wonnangatta Murders Revisited: You do have to wonder about Greg Lynn when the case was adjourned whilst everyone prepared more ‘evidence’ for yet more months - in the light of the disappearance of yet another person in the High Country (missing hiker Christos Pittas near Mt Hotham on 13 May).
It would be horrifying indeed if police have the wrong man (as seems unlikely I admit – but they have managed it before eg in the cases of Jason Roberts and George Pell recently for example) but what has been revealed so far anyway about the case is (legally speaking I guess) surely purely circumstantial - even if it seems pretty damning.
I have to admit that when they found the bodies it appeared to me that Lynn must have confessed and told them where they were – but if that had been the case not only would police now know more (eg where the trailer, phones, drones etc are) but he would also surely have pleaded guilty – and we would have been told.
The finding of the bodies whilst he was in custody was either a result of
information gleaned from his phone (but why did he, an airline pilot who ought
to know about such things still have the same phone? And would this be
admissible? Surely you have to have the evidence before you arrest someone?) or
it may be that they just began to look whilst he was in custody along and
adjoining his supposed route – and the bodies were clearly not particularly
well-concealed, ie there was a suspicious level of disturbance leading to them,
and so they were found at that time. I would have been looking much closer to
the
This route (via Grant) was also (likely) the route taken by the person in the ‘white ute’ whom police had claimed earlier as the possible murderer. – and likely any number of other people including (obviously) the real murderer whoever that was – if not Lynn, as Parks Vic had not bothered to signpost the Jamieson exit as closed, so many people no doubt tried to get out that way, then when they failed continued on towards Grant.
So far as we know all police have is
Of course if the Christos disappearance is just the latest in a long chain
of unexplained disappearances in the High Country then mayhap the poor old
‘Button Man’ shibboleth will have to be revisited. If more people should go
missing things will look even worse: https://www.bordermail.com.au/story/7748362/after-searching-more-than-a-week-missing-man-not-found-search-over/
15/07/2022: The level of outright treason from the Bidens is breathtaking – this is the sort of stuff which used to lead to execution (still on the statutes there): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/end-of-an-empire-what-if-china-bought-the-us-president-unleashed-a-bioweapon-and-no-one-cared/
14/07/2022: There is
no place for race in our constitution. People who self-identify as belonging to
a race (other than the human race) are the racists. By so doing they invite
others to comment on their own appalling statistics of welfare dependency,
crime, family violence, drug and alcohol dependency, rent seeking & etc -
but that would be illegal in the 'free speech' regime we 'enjoy' - instead of
expecting the rest of us to do something other than continuing to bankroll
them, they should do something about improving themselves - just as the rest of
us quite rightly can be expected to do. Let's have a referendum to abolish the
utterly undemocratic Senate instead - that has been long overdue and would do
some good – and let’s get rid of the awful ‘preferential’ system too while we
are at it which effectively gives some citizens several votes and others only
one (depending on whose preferences get counted. It might be a different matter
if everyone’s were. For example, in the recent elections none of the Teals
would have been elected if Liberal voters’ preferences (a much larger group
than any other) were counted (even twice – as compared with some other people’s
votes being counted even 8-9 times). ‘First Past the
14/07/2022: Really literally no-one would pay to watch/listen to the ABC, so why do we throw over a billion at it annually: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/virginia-trioli-loses-a-quarter-of-her-radio-audience.html
14/07/2022: Good luck taxing the rich
when they’re gone.
14/07/2022: One of the most major
mental defects is seeing problems instead of solutions. As an example of
this real ‘scientists’ eg agronomists and (electrical) engineers long ago ‘solved’
the food and energy ‘problems’ so that it is (relatively) easy to produce
enough food and energy to supply the burgeoning world population with a decent
diet and lifestyle, and to do this whilst improving ‘environmental’ values. It
is not possible to do so with ‘organic’ agriculture which is disastrously less
productive. To feed the present world population by this C18th (or earlier)
methods we would have to clear all the remaining wilderness – yet still we
would have mass starvation. Such scientists have been improving on this and
other similar features of the world (transport, health communication etc) for at least a couple of
hundred years. You don’t need to stand in the road and stymie their efforts (as
recently happened in Sri Lanka for example or as is foreshadowed in
13/07/2022: Uvalde only gets worse. Now we learn that a police officer was denied the opportunity to take out the perpetrator before he had murdered any children – but what good would that do for ‘gun reform’? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/new-armed-uvalde-police-officer-clear-shot-take-salvador-ramos-entered-robb-elementary-school-fatally-shot-19-children/
13/07/2022: Yes, this red panda story
is typical of climate misinformation – of course ‘all of us’ would
13/07/2022: The world has been being
run by clowns. As this energy disaster unfolded Boris was planning to ban wood
heating. I think we have a real analogue here with Albanese and Bowen –
imagine having a brace of modern-day Caligulas. At least if Anthony ‘fiddles
while
13/07/2022: Senior police certainly
can get it wrong but this guy
The treatment of Avi Yemeni is another case in point: https://www.rebelnews.com/victoria_police_apologise_to_avi_yemini_over_unlawful_arrests
12/07/2022: We are certainly very happy we still have a wood fire – but how long before the green zealots come for us: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/not-laughing-now-wood-burning-stoves-firewood-short-supply-germany-citizens-fear-freezing-death-due-gas-shortages/
12/07/2022: How does your ‘classic car’ such as a 90s Land Rover (where every part is available replaceable by a home mechanic) stack up against a ‘modern’ car or the latest EV? There is just no comparison. Your classic car is enormously ‘greener’: https://issuesinsights.com/2022/07/05/confirmed-again-the-green-agenda-is-taking-us-backward/
12/07/2022: A fairly dramatic fall in
the birth rate. Activists may not need to worry about abortion as it seems
that the vaccine may do it for them: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/where-have-all-the-babies-gone/
12/07/2022: Zulu – one of my favourite films though I agree with Steyn, it is unlikely it would be made today. Rorke’s Drift remains the single engagement where more VCs were awarded than any other: https://www.steynonline.com/12632/this-butcher-yard-michael-caine-and-zulu
11/07/2022: A walk around the world: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/tom-turcich-is-set-to-become-the-10th-person-to-have-walked-around-the-world-his-dog-will-be-the-first/xuh5ani6p?fbclid=IwAR250IjHpnHB2WpWG11dlU_Y48KbVSctVvNs2SXNO1O7lKsHT4-H8W4rljA
11/07/2022: I really hope this is not happening but what experience I have of cyber-bullying and peer pressure amongst the young tells me that it is happening far too much and anyway much moreso than was the case in generations past (eg when people left school at ~15 to take a job as I did) : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/07/the_lost_generations.html
11/07/2022: You get banned for stating the bald truth about CO, ie that it is at practically the lowest level ever and only barely above that level needed to support life on Earth. You might not have heard this. I wonder why: https://climaterealism.com/2022/07/linkedin-bans-scientist-for-presenting-inconvenient-truths-about-co2/
11/07/2022: Just in case you thought the people running the Ukraine aren’t Nazis: https://unitedwithisrael.org/antisemism-in-ukraine-envoy-lavishes-praise-on-nazi-murderer-no-repercussions/ & https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-march-in-ukraine-in-annual-tribute-to-nazi-collaborator/
10/07/2022: The eternal solution. ‘God save us’ from folks who think this way. It used to be ‘limited’ to the religious this having goals which will last ‘for all time’ but the nanny staters and communists who have been/are running the world at the present (and many of those who seek to do so) are forever trying to ‘fix’ things ‘for all time’: legislation, regulations, the environment…on and on to a ‘perfect world’. I don’t think so. I would be happier with an imperfect world with lots of real diversity of thought and organisation where things are allowed to just ‘bumble along’ under the operation of ‘natural laws’ such as ‘supply and demand’ ‘evolution’ etc. I am so sick of the ‘none so pure as the pure in heart’ brigade.
10/07/2022: Get ready for a real boom in Far UVC ‘zappers’ – may be the trendoid investment of the day guys: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/far-uvc-kills-viruses-in-minutes-safe-for-human-skin-and-eyes-and-the-chinese-are-installing-it-why-arent-we/
10/07/2022: Things get worse and
worse in
10/07/2022: What kind of sad mad world are we living in that you can’t even feed the birds? Whoever the neighbours, bureaucrats, lawyers and other low-life are who are responsible for this, they deserve an open season to be declared on them. They are the vermin, not the pigeons: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/a-crime-to-be-kind-south-yarra-woman-who-feeds-pigeons-says-shes-the-victim-of-a-witch-hunt/news-story/4e30ae86642af689122674e72d421b16
09/07/2022: Soon a drug which will allow you to live to 200. Bring it on: https://thred.com/tech/drug-that-increases-human-lifespan-to-200-years-is-in-the-works/
09/07/2022: Leo Maglen may not have fought against it but I have, all my life, with every fibre of my being – and I continue to do so, “As the last of our parents’ greatest generation pass away, we are now the elders of our culture. Their fantastic legacy, built with hard work, stoicism, great sacrifice, and a high degree of consensus about what they stood for, is what we should be taking responsibility for defending, preserving and passing on to subsequent generations. Instead we have squandered our inheritance. Whilst we grew up in the era of unprecedented economic growth and prosperity they made possible, we have failed to grasp the lessons they taught us. We were too busy congratulating ourselves on our good fortune and enjoying its fruits to remember the old adages that good times do not go on for ever, and that no-one owes us a living”. https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/07/mea-culpa-my-generation-should-have-done-more/
09/07/2022: The Dutch Government has
even decided to expropriate farmers’ land and hand it over to illegal
immigrants – this is the sort of evil you get when you toss away your
national sovereignty and allow yourself to be dominated by green ideologues.
Meanwhile other farmers throughout the EU eg in
09/07/2022: Dire News: NB: Shinzo Abe
was shot with a home-made pipe shotgun. He was giving a speech about the
defence of
08/07/2022: PC gone mad: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/man-arrested-for-killing-rooster-in-self-defense-hilarious/
08/07/2022:
08/07/2022: “The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do”. Jordan Peterson
08/07/2022: Unfortunately the scouts have always had a problem with pedophilia but this is utterly ridiculous: https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2021/11/26/delingpole-meet-mistress-the-girl-guides-transgender-commissioner/
07/07/2022: Today’s
07/07/2022: "Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum ." Jonathan Swift: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/cern-atom-smashers-discover-3-new-exotic-particles/
07/07/2022: “But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world”. Matthew Arnold, ‘
So, the census now shows that
few of us are ‘religious’ and even fewer (still) Christians. Curiously I decided
(for the first time this census ) to write ‘Christian’ on my census form
because while I am not a believer, I see myself as firmly in the Christian
tradition. We have thrown out too much with the bathwater, I think. One of the
chiefest reasons for the decline of Christian belief, Christian tradition and
ethics is that most of the nominally Christian ‘sects’ have long since been
captured by the communists who were long the ‘godless enemy’ – and frankly
still are. ‘Wokeism’ in a multiplicity of vile forms has also captured the
pulpit (and caused the congregation to flee elsewhere). We now have that
situation which Yeats described as ‘The best lack all conviction whilst the
worst are full of passionate intensity”. No-one believes anything anymore not least
why they should be good – or even understands what goodness is. Seemingly the
‘moral life’ is just a grab bag of eclectic slogans having no logical
consistency with each other. There is no underlying ‘rock’ on which a ‘good
life’ can be based. The upshot of this is that civilisation will go down into
chaos and will not rise again for a thousand years (if ever) - as the vast ruined empty cities which dot the
jungles of
07/07/2022: I really hope the 40,000 Dutch farmers are the adults in the room who bring the whole evil chicanery of ‘climate change’ crashing down. Just maybe the people would rather the farmers fed them, and that coal, gas and oil producers warmed them, & etc than just wait while the green bureaucrats and pollies bankrupted, starved and froze them: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/climate-change-a-religion-built-on-blind-faith/ & https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-the-green-eu-starves-the-world/
06/07/2022: Poem for Today:
W.H. Auden: Roman Wall Blues
Over the heather the wet wind blows,
I've lice in my tunic and a cold in my nose.
The rain comes pattering out of the sky,
I'm a Wall Soldier, I don't know why.
The mist creeps over the hard grey stone,
My girl's in Tungria: I sleep alone.
Aulus goes hanging around her place,
I don't like his manners, I don't like his face.
Piso's a Christian, he worships a fish;
There'd be no kissing if he got his wish.
She gave me a ring but I diced it away;
I want my girl and I want my pay.
When I'm a veteran with only one eye
I shall do nothing but look at the sky.
PS: I feel a bit like this old soldier guarding the borders against the barbarians, however I feel that civilization is being overwhelmed.
06/07/2022: This is just such feral
madness. BTW
06/07/2022: Most of these ‘traditions’ were invented by people still alive today (like Ernie Dingo for example who admits to having invented the ‘smoking ceremony’). “If Australian leftists want to continue inventing Aboriginal traditions, they obviously need to lift the quality of their research. In fact, we would all be better off if they gave away the whole tawdry game.” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/07/sacred-traditions-invented-yesterday/
06/07/2022: This is the thin edge of the wedge. I certainly hope these Dutch farmers prevail against the ‘green blob’. The ‘madness of crowds’ has to be answered with the sanity of the grown-ups: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/how-the-green-eu-starves-the-world/
05/07/2022: I think people were more likely to do this sort of thing 100 years ago even though there is clearly more wilderness out there today: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37769-Canoeing-with-the-Cree-A-cool-American-story.html
05/07/2022: Things you should know.
All life in earth basically depends on the tiny enzyme rubisco (Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase)
which is what drives photosynthesis. Its productivity can be increased
enormously (at least to four times) by increasing the proportion of CO2 in the
atmosphere – as people normally do in greenhouses. When there was much more of
it in the past there was a vast profusion of life therefore. The quantum of
life has reduced gradually as its proportion in the atmosphere declined
arriving at its lowest point during the last ice age. We
05/07/2022:
05/07/2022: What a lot of racist
nonsense all these ‘aboriginal’ flags are. We really don’t need to be
divided by any such spurious basis as ‘race’ – a vile outdated C19th concept.
Let’s just have the one national
04/07/2022: Fascinating, beautiful noctilucent clouds: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/rare-clouds-that-glow-in-the-dark-are-the-most-vibrant-in-15-years/ar-AAZ5Nks
04/07/2022: The ‘last testament of George Macdonald Fraser published on the occasion of his death (in 2008) – a must read. There is not much here (if anything ) I disagree with: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-506219/The-testament-Flashmans-creator-How-Britain-destroyed-itself.html
Another 100 year old veteran expressing much the same view, “the country is going to hell in a handbasket”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/100-year-old-decorated-veteran-breaks-crying-not-country-fought-video/
04/07/2022: A harbinger of things to
come –
04/07/2022: When I studied High School Science 60 years ago we learned about the ‘Carbon Cycle’ amongst other such ‘natural’ cycles. But NB they were ‘cycles’. Over a period of time carbon was cycled through the world’s natural systems eventually finding its way back to where it had begun. It would be most unfortunate for life on earth (composed as it is of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen) if this was not so – else life would clearly (soon geologically) cease. Carbon does get ‘locked up’ for awesome periods of time (eg in ‘fossil’ fuels and even moreso in carbonate rocks (like limestone). Fortunately there are also natural processes which ‘unlock’ it or after a while there would be insufficient to maintain life on earth. After a long succession of Ice Ages this is just about the situation we find ourselves in. It is a moot point whether life itself could survive another ice age when the CO2 in the air was dissolved in the oceans to such an extent as to be insufficient (in the atmosphere) to maintain photosynthesis. The so-called ‘pre-Industrial’ level of aprox 250ppm is just about the lowest limit consistent with life on the planet. In any case life would not survive its falling a further 100ppm whereas there was a wonderful exuberance of life in earlier geological eras when it was in excess of 20,000ppm…“Bjorn Lomborg…shows clearly that the risk of death from extreme weather events in 2020 is a mere 1 per cent of what it was in 1920” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/07-08/the-madness-of-net-zero/
Of course there is also a Nitrogen
Cycle (nitrogen composing 70% of the atmospehere if you have forgotten and
not .04% like CO2). At present the Dutch Government is so concerned about
nitrogen they are trying to shut down farming (just like
03/07/2022: Who’d have thought – the Jurassic dinosaurs loved the cold, just like the Tuatara. No doubt they were warm-blooded and as woolly as any mammoth: https://scitechdaily.com/study-of-ancient-mass-extinction-reveals-dinosaurs-took-over-earth-amid-ice-not-warmth/
03/07/2022: So the AEMO has a $300+
billion plan to ‘ditch’ coal and replace it with something which any child
ought to be able to see would not work!
Great! We pay these idiot bureaucrats far too much. Also, whilst there is
zero ‘problem’ with (heat from) CO2 which is wholly beneficial in every other
way - note the vast increase in forested areas (and life) as a result of adding
it to the atmosphere – an area roughly three times
03/07/2022: Wadeye – what a terrible place. This is not a solution to anything. We really should not keep such hell-holes going. I for one would not be picking up garbage and s—t left behind by my able bodied students. I would never be a servant. They in turn need to learn (whether they be black white or brindle) that if they want to have a living they need to do something for that living otherwise it should be withdrawn: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2008/12/wadeye-failed-state-as-cultural-triumph/
03/07/2022: When I was a small boy
02/07/2022: Now the Census shows that the majority of ‘us’ are members of the ‘Third Wave’ maybe it is time for constitutional recognition of this group through having their own representatives. I am myself a member of the Second Wave so a completely downtrodden group nowadays: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/identity/2022/06/a-voice-for-wogs-huns-balts-poms-and-paddys/
02/07/2022: The notion of ‘customary law’ (a vile idea) is just another reason to reject the concept of ‘separate development’ in Oz, or ‘apartheid’ as it was once called. Frankly it made more sense in SA – probably still does, as the country is now dominated by one tribe: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/traditional-culture-is-the-problem-not-the-solution/
02/07/2022: I like what the Supreme
Court has been doing in the
02/07/2022: If there is so much ‘global warming’ why is it getting colder? The Tropics (for example) are registering down .37C compared with the forty year average. The world as a whole is only up .06C degrees. These are very trivial variations from an enormously stable climate. Why is the climate so awesomely stable? Do you suppose the alarmists have overlooked a huge thermostat which controls the weather? Almost certainly: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/01/satellite-data-coolest-monthly-global-temperature-in-over-10-years/
01/07/2022: I wonder whether this space-plane will ever fly? I’m sure Al Gore and his associates will want one though: https://www.ladbible.com/news/latest-hypersonic-jet-take-you-anywhere-on-earth-within-one-hour-20220617
01/07/2022: These guys are just getting too big. Soon they will be muscling us out of our homes: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/new-bacterium-roughly-the-size-shape-of-an-eyelash-smashes-size-record/
01/07/2022: Is there a solution to our electrical crisis? We should listen to the experts. This guy is an expert: https://latrobevalleyexpress.com.au/news/2022/06/29/comment-a-look-at-the-current-electricity-landscape/?fbclid=IwAR2VesUFqhVJRc4cKAdaYlIU8Eru40O8Ag-FBkR-HY2NWlopfMSh5tga9j4
01/07/2022: The invasion of the
30/06/2022: Some very big fish still
in the
30/06/2022: Greta’s mess – this is
the rubbish left behind at
30/06/2022: Interesting to see a graphic of the kind of limits on abortion folks are talking about. Few people would argue against a ‘morning after’ pill. Most would be OK for the first 4- 6 weeks. After that the situation gets increasingly complex. Clearly after around 20 weeks when the baby could survive birth it becomes a very grey area indeed. You are after all always talking about taking a human life: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/europe-has-more-restrictive-abortion-law-than-u-s/
30/06/2022: I completely agree with this (and it’s not an improvement), “Christian doctrines have simply been replaced by hard-line secular ideologies, which are frequently more dogmatic, intolerant, and hostile to non-believers, blasphemers, and apostates… ‘What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?’” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/christianity-becomes-a-minority-but-religion-is-on-the-rise/
29/06/2022: Well, 1000km on a single charge – who’d have thought? https://newatlas.com/automotive/mercedes-eqxx-1202km-ev-range-record/
29/06/2022: Thank you Jim Steele. A ‘must read’. An educated layman’s explanation of how the ‘greenhouse effect’ actually works and why CO2 is not a problem at all, “So beware of anyone telling you that increasing CO2 is increasingly trapping heat and causing a climate crisis. They are either ignorant of the science, or dishonestly manipulating your thinking to advance their political agendas” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/28/media-claims-co2-traps-heat-a-big-lie-or-a-big-stupid/
29/06/2022: The head of the British Army speaks out – a long read but a worthwhile one. We will ignore him at our extreme peril: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/british-army-chief-i-intend-to-mobilise-the-british-army-to-deter-russia.html
29/06/2022: Listen up Lysistrata:
abortion is not contraception. Instead, it is a very serious decision to
kill a baby. Should this be a ‘right’ for just one parent though eg right up to
the moment of birth? Imagine the
furore if only male parents had the right to kill their children: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/democrats-go-on-sex-strike/
28/06/2022: Not so long ago we
measured our standard of progress by how
many millions of tonnes of steel and coal we produced (for example), but
the West as been giving up such progress, while
28/06/2022: Mostly from the poor to the rich as it turns out! “At least the leftist Potsdam Institute’s Professor Ottmar Edenhofer has the courage to say out loud what is becoming more obvious by the day. ‘One has to free oneself,’ he says, ‘from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. Instead, climate change policy is about how we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth’.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/perhaps-in-the-next-life/
28/06/2022: I think we can learn from the French police: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/27/climate-activists-discover-french-police-dont-use-glue-solvent/
28/06/2022: What utter bulls—t: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/australias-health-department-provides-78-word-answer-to-what-is-a-woman.html
27/06/2022: Oz is back in the space race – a very long while since ‘Blue Streak’: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/science/nasa-launches-rockets-from-northern-territory-space-centre/video/5879fe829043008e2766d7c0b5783080
27/06/2022: The Atomic Bomb – it
wasn’t just the war against
27/06/2022: Has the great green unraveling begun? One can only hope: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/climate-pledges-vanish-in-europe/
27/06/2022: Yet another ‘aboriginal
26/06/2022: Another baby mammoth – soon they will have enough of these little guys to bring them back from extinction: https://yukon.ca/en/news/mummified-baby-woolly-mammoth-found-gold-miner-klondike
26/06/2022: Perhaps getting your flu vax is a no-brainer after all: https://scitechdaily.com/flu-vaccination-linked-to-40-lower-risk-of-alzheimers-disease/
26/06/2022: Justice for Justine? Any day
I expect they will declare an open season against Aussies in the
26/06/2022: Do you suppose Walt himself would support all this gay stuff? I remember both Mickey and Donald only having nephews rather than children but they did both have girlfriends (who strangely enough only had nieces): https://www.dailywire.com/news/disneys-strange-world-film-to-include-openly-gay-teen-romance & https://ace.mu.nu/archives/399695.php
25/06/2022: The sad decline of English. You can tell neither Della nor I is still there: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/06/the-vicious-circle-in-the-teaching-of-english/
25/06/2022: Great news for the deaf (like me) I don’t think. What, every time I need to change my hearing aid batteries (every few days) I will have to do so with some kind of miniature screwdriver? Great: https://www.9news.com.au/national/new-australian-laws-on-button-batteries-take-effect-today/c5053294-ebd3-48a6-a8e9-145004a69758?ocid=social-9newsP
25/06/2022: This is a British Medical Journal study: “The excess risk of serious adverse events of special interest surpassed the risk reduction for COVID-19 hospitalization relative to the placebo group in both Pfizer and Moderna trials (2.3 and 6.4 per 10,000 participants, respectively)”. Yet such dangerous vaccines were (and still are) mandated and even inflicted on children at almost zero risk from the disease itself: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4125239
25/06/2022: In the US they have a coalition of dark political forces people are calling the ‘Uniparty’ and which I long ago called out as ‘fascism’ which defies ‘populism’ or what we used to call ‘democracy’ ie ‘the will of the people’. We have been seeing this in Oz too with the election of the awful ‘Teals’ and ‘Greens’ to so many seats and now with the election of a ‘Labor’ Government by only 32% of voters. These are dark days my friends: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/this-is-how-democracy-dies-not-in-darkness-but-in-plain-sight-live-on-c-span/
Michael Baume explains how all is not yet lost (though it certainly seems that way): https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/business-robbery-etc-95/
Meanwhile the Supreme Court’s decision is to let the citizens decide (what the constitution intended). Of course such an ‘undemocratic’ decision will be met with violence and rioting: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2022/06/24/read-it-heres-the-supreme-courts-basis-for-overruling-roe-and-casey-n2609277
24/06/2022: Here’s a neat puzzle: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a39818039/missing-square-puzzle/
24/06/2022: The Science is Proven:
24/06/2022: “No good deed goes unpunished.” Why ‘aid’ never works – a must read: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/a-needed-farewell-to-alms/
24/06/2022: The reality is that every
day the Ukrainians are losing hundreds of soldiers. They have also
irrevocably lost the East of their country which is responsible for 80% of
their GDP to
23/06/2022:
23/06/2022: The
23/06/2022: Chris Bowen is simply nuts. There is no such thing as ‘firmed renewables’ and possibly never will be, however there has been cheap safe nuclear power for over 70 years: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/21/aussie-energy-minister-nuclear-advocates-are-dangerously-ignorant/
When times get tough people want coal: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/europe-wants-coal-austria-netherlands-switch-on-old-coal-plants-poland-pays-for-coal-to-homes/
23/06/2022: The greens have always been vermin. Surely one day an open season will be declared on them: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/vermin.html
22/06/2022: 10 Times Socialism Actually Worked: https://babylonbee.com/news/10-times-socialism-actually-worked
22/06/2022: Blame Trump for the recession! I notice we are starting to get the same meme from the Albanese Government here – the disasters they are currently creating were all Morrison’s fault. Of course: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/predictable-democrats-now-blame-trump-historic-inflation-numbers-video/
22/06/2022: Finally we begin to learn that the Uvalde school massacre was down to police failing to do their jobs (rather like the LIndt Café siege) or were ordered not to do their jobs. Just imagine they were standing in the corridor outside with loaded rifles and bullet-proof shields with only an unlocked door separating them from a perpetrator who was massacring children one by one: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/breaking-uvalde-official-admits-policenever-touched-door-see-locked-breached-video/
22/06/2022: We voted for this? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/new-labor-senator-i-want-to-normalise-hijab-wearing.html
21/06/2022: Maybe they just got old – we are both having difficulty opening jars now: https://babylonbee.com/news/anthropologists-believe-that-all-female-amazon-tribe-collapsed-because-nobody-could-get-any-jars-open
21/06/2022: Good news I guess, but do I want to know – surely I just forgot where I left my keys: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-brain-scan-alzheimer-disease.html
21/06/2022: It would be very disquieting if one of the purposes of the mRNA vaccines was human sterilisation: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-covid-vaccine-paper-on/comments
21/06/2022: When will Oz realize we can’t get by without fossil fuels and that huge investment is needed to replace those useless ‘renewables’ with a reliable power supply: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-to-fire-up-coal-plants-as-russia-turns-down-the-gas/a-62182321
20/06/2022: A line by line
explanation of the
20/06/2022: “If we want the best for our kids, we can’t
outsource parenting for 40 hours a week while they turn our children into
little Marxists.” – Kirk Cameron
20/06/2022: Great headline: Earth to Bowen – we need the power on 24/7: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin/peta-credlin-insane-energy-policy-makes-power-more-expensive-and-less-reliable/news-story/42b435abbb393f5772d55a98dc726afd
19/06/2022: A robot in your brain: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-06-microrobot-device-brain-hemorrhages-due.html
19/06/2022: Happy 80th Paul MCCartney: https://quillette.com/2022/06/18/mccartney-at-80/ & https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2022/06/18/happy-80th-birthday-paul-mccartney-n1606221
19/06/2022: Australian prehistory we are no longer allowed to investigate: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-b3d?s=w & https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-problems-of-australias-deep-past-c2d?s=w
19/06/2022: Of course Ian Plimer is right: there has never been a single shred of evidence that human emissions cause ‘global warming’ or that it will even be (again) as warm as it was was in the Middle Ages just 500 years ago when they grew wine in Scotland and farmed in Greenland: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/aussie-life-74/
18/06/2022: Otherwise known as ‘the blood battery’! A very good question: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/08/is-it-ethical-to-purchase-an-ev-lithium-battery-powered-vehicle/
Why not use them to back up ‘the blood panels’? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/06/bidens-blood-panels-suspect-solar-panel-import-restrictions-eased/
18/06/2022: How poor renewables really are: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/global-woe-the-transition-has-stalled-the-world-is-using-more-fossil-fuels-than-ever/
18/06/2022: Who would have thought that Keating’s introduction of compulsory superannuation would be a financial disaster: https://www.afr.com/policy/tax-and-super/would-taxpayers-be-better-off-if-superannuation-never-existed-20220617-p5aug7?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0QRrHtaIUhpzhcOzQ1aKeCi2tqXi_cnNDAGbJ8OtCPo3IUfEPUyFf8PR4#Echobox=1655449751
17/06/2022: Who would want to be a police officer in these circumstances. The policeman had to respond astonishingly quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y09g2tNGHrg
17/06/2022: God is no longer a man – and other woke follies: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/catholic-mass-converting-to-celebration-of-woke-welcome-to-country-god-gets-regendered-climate-refug.html
17/06/2022: These are the guys who
brought us ‘stagflation’ last time – see photo (Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden).
Nothing to worry about here surely: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/06/15/here-comes-stagflation-n1605413
But consider this, if Joe Biden seriously wanted to destroy
17/06/2022: The cost and replacement cycle of renewables is just astonishing. No way can any country afford this nonsense: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/06/16/guest-post-dr-faustus-mondays-experts-on-the-energy-crisis/
16/06/2022: One lucky cat: https://wafflesatnoon.com/cat-on-hang-glider/
16/06/2022: The engineering and economic costs of ‘green hydrogen’ make this ‘solution’ actually impossible. Think again emerald darlings: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/14/hydrogen-is-unlikely-ever-to-be-a-viable-solution-to-the-energy-storage-conundrum/
16/06/2022: Yes, “Mental Toughness is particularly worth promoting among the young, a stance that seems at least somewhat at odds with today’s self-care narrative. Says Chawla, “I would define mental toughness as grit. Tenacity. And a fairly big chunk of that is having some discipline over your own impulses—doing things even when your mind is objecting. This idea is now reviled in mainstream culture in favor of approaches such as, ‘be gentle with yourself.’ [But] if you’re always gentle with yourself you will stagnate and grow weak and fragile.” If our goal is to uphold and not erode mental toughness, it is surely unhelpful to applaud iconic role models for extolling fragility” https://quillette.com/2022/06/12/the-burden-of-the-best/
16/06/2022: Scary: Couldn’t fight our way out of a wet paper bag: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/china-rising-the-adf-have-nothing/
It is all too likely that (as we have almost always done) we are preparing for the last war but not the next: https://richardsonpost.com/adam-piggott/27408/the-paradigm-shift-in-war/
15/06/2022: F Break: F Break is
at the end of ‘The Cape’ Road off the
Mind you, no-one much is walking or camping along the beach itself. You can
walk all the way from
It is a very pleasant day walk from Harmers
Haven to
15/06/2022: Vitamin D it appears is good for many things: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/one-in-six-dementia-cases-might-be-avoided-with-vitamin-d/
15/06/2022: As energy prices rocket and shortages increase I suspect for many of us winter will mean huddling in bed together as (poor) folk have done for much of history (or die): https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/communal-sleeping-history-sharing-bed
15/06/2022: The Truth about ‘Aboriginal Culture’ – and what happened to it: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/06/the-voice-and-the-end-of-traditional-aboriginal-culture/
15/06/2022: Tough times ahead. In the
14/06/2022: Ultralight Towel: Of course the very best ultralight towel is none at all - but you might not enjoy waiting (maybe in a cold wind) to dry off (though you will). It's not so bad in the summertime but can be a tad testy in the colder weather. The same strategy can be applied to clothes washing - and I have done so for many years, ie just put them on wet after I have washed them as best as I can in the river (without soap). Usually I manage to dry them some overnight eg with the clotheslines in my tents, but not always.
They will be dry in around fifteen minutes on your body if they are the (modern) quick-drying type. This is a fairly rigorous regime of a morning I admit. I always dress in my wet clothes immediately before I set out. You do get used to it. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/06/12/ultralight-towel/
14/06/2022: When an elephant doesn’t like you, you’d better watch out: https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/elephant-tramples-woman-to-death-then-attacks-her-corpse-at-funeral/news-story/015696d8a245a347f8c7f75963dfc494
14/06/2022: There are worse things around than covid, the Black Death for example which could make a comeback anytime: https://nypost.com/2022/05/31/gruesome-nose-bleed-fever-death-toll-rises-to-at-least-18/
14/06/2022: So, do you really think
13/06/2022: Remember ‘Mike’ the computer from Heinlein’s ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’ who ‘wakes up’? Well, his name is Lamda. Seems to pass the ‘Turing Test’ as a sentient. I can’t tell. Can you? I have known any number of human beings who could not give as good an account of themselves as this. Scary stuff: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/straight-sci-fi-movie-google-suspends-engineer-sounding-alarm-companys-dangerous-sentient-ai-lamda-robot/ & https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917
13/06/2022: Ingenious DIY
This ultralight wood stove has been designed to burn damp, wet or frozen sticks with minimal preparation and should burn much better than natural draft stick burning stoves when using wet sticks. The blower creates a very hot fire on one end of the sticks. While providing intense cooking heat, the stove also heats and dries the incoming fuel sticks, so that they will burn easily when they enter the burn chamber adjacent to the blower air jet.
The Large/Single- ultralight blower stove rolls up to fit in its own large pot for backpacking. It will cook one large pot at a time. However, with a bit of rock trickery, it can also heat another large pot. It has an ultralight titanium body and an anodized aluminium pot. The titanium stove can be rolled up and all parts pack up inside the aluminium cooking pot. Read More: Ingenious Ultralight Blower Stoves
13/06/2022: NZ has decided to starve people to ‘save’ the planet. Not long before farming is banned altogether. The wicked witch must go: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/09/new-zealand-introduces-a-climate-change-meat-tax/
13/06/2022: During this cold wet weather it might be good to reflect that bushfire management has been hijacked by the greens so that conservation is gone for good and lives will be lost: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/the-incredible-international-fire-climate-conference/
13/06/2022: The Ugly Truth about electric vehicles… Raping the earth: https://www.cfact.org/2022/06/07/is-it-ethical-to-purchase-a-lithium-battery-powered-ev/
12/06/2022: DIY Fire Blower: I had been looking at some of erstwhile DIY genius Tim Tinker’s posts, eg Solar Fire Blower, Blower Stoves and USB Fire Blower so I decided to order some 5 volt laptop PC cooling fans from Aliexpress. They cost me US$1.40 each! The 3/4″ (19mm) plumbing fittings were also only 50c or so from Bunnings.
As you can see I have cut one of the fittings down then glued it with Araldite to the cooling fan. I did this so I could attach a roll-up stainless steel foil tube to it (which I did). You could just make the tube by pop-riveting it together as well as pop-riveting it to the fan. This would provide some distance from the heat of the stove you were trying to hyper-oxygenate.
Read More: DIY Fire Blower
12/06/2022: Alas, due to PC ours are
no more, but this is how
12/06/2022: And now for the good news: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10902055/Are-verge-cure-cancer-week-scientists-announced-breakthroughs-vaccine.html
12/06/2022: Indeed, enough is enough. Some great suggestions here, “Four decades of failure to invest in the infrastructure needed to supply our growing population with basic services like water, power, gas and fuel while unwisely investing our limited capital in the black hole of so-called renewable energy and climate change abatement has left our economy incapable of competing with the rest of the world.” https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2022/06/broad-thoughts-on-a-better-australia/
Viv outs the energy madness pretty succinctly: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/planned-chaos-in-australias-power-generation/
12/06/2022: More electric car nightmares – why do people even bother: https://americandigest.org/noted-in-passing-hey-lets-drive-all-the-way-from-chi-town-to-new-orleans-in-an-electric-car-itll-be-fun/
11/06/2022: It is a problem isn’t it? While I do believe people should have the option of escaping an intolerable situation (if they wish to) they certainly should not be pressured to do so: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/the-potential-danger-of-assisted-dying/
11/06/2022: This is just about always
the case with mass murderers ie they are mentally ill, give every
11/06/2022: The climate disobediently keeps defying warmist doomsayer predictions. Where did this cold come from? Enjoy the snow season everyone: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/expert-scientists-wrong-again-bumper-snow-season-kicks-off-in-australia/
11/06/2022: Imagine if lithium is declared an ‘environmental hazard’ (which it clearly is – much worse than lead): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/06/10/top-producer-albemarle-risks-shutting-german-plant-if-eu-declares-lithium-a-hazard/
10/06/2022: Just an experiment –
apparently Facebook will take this cartoon down as they don’t understand
satire, or are just too ‘woke’.
10/06/2022: Long since time to encourage kids to ‘look out the window’ especially at ‘the best that has been thought and said’. If teachers do not ‘lift’ children, maybe no-one will: https://nypost.com/2022/06/01/expert-idiocy-on-teaching-kids-to-read-is-beyond-comprehension/
10/06/2022: Recession. Hold your hats, here it comes folks. (And you probably voted for it). This is what you get from foolish ‘spend-a-thons’ which did nothing to mitigate a (deliberate) yet slight ‘pandemic’. To think there are millions of young people brought up with a naïve belief in socialism who have never known a recession. They have a lot to learn. Maybe time to start that veggie garden, or downsize the house and car. Ditch private education. Forget about foreign travel and eating out in restaurants: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/world-bank-signals-global-recession-saying-essentially-no-rebound-expected-several-years-average-inflation-ahead/ & https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/08/mortgage-demand-falls-to-the-lowest-level-in-22-years.html & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/biden-economy-recession-way-us-gdp-six-months-row-october-2021-last-high/ & https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/australian-residential-land-value-to-gdp-ratio-now-higher-than-japan-at-height-of-1989-bubble/news-story/140872e9ed0fffb9e9a544d3ed68d1fd
10/06/2022: Important thoughts about
the Western – a genre I love, “But life for an average citizen of the
western community—that is, apart from the railheads, cattle towns, and gold
strikes—was far safer than life is today in
09/06/2022: Paragliding could be fun - a young bird I guess: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nature-is-awesome/
09/06/2022: A long trip in an EV is
just about impossible (and probably always will be). You have to think
about that (greater than 50%) reduction in range, then how long it takes
(relatively) to fill the tank. Think of miles long queues at the roadside
servos. And then if it gets very cold there will be frozen dead folks huddled
in stalled EVs all along freeways. Incidentally they also ‘save’ actually zero
carbon when you figure our their total ‘footprint’ – as if that mattered anyway
and the world was actually (negatively) affected by CO2. It was much warmer
(and colder) in the past with and without it. Think 20,000ppms during Ice Ages or
the Vikings living happily in a (forested)
09/06/2022: Unfortunately there is an
increasing need for self-protection. The boom in home security products
highlights this fact. Police only ever come along and pick up the pieces. They do
very little to prevent such incidents if in fact some ‘woke’ police practices
don’t even encourage them. I agree that you need a weapon which will deliver
multiple very damaging shots quickly. A larger caliber semi-automatic or
heavier gauge shotgun are obvious choices. For everyday carry clearly a pistol
would be a great idea – but we have been unable to protect ourselves in Vic for
nearly a century (after having been able to do so for hundreds of years).
During this time crimes against the person have increased hugely. In (future)
occasions of heightened (economic) and other insecurity the situation will only
worsen. The government does nothing to protect us (quite the reverse) when it
denies us the opportunity and right to protect ourselves. Too often the
government is the problem, not the solution: https://amgreatness.com/2022/06/07/because-the-ar-15-can-deter-a-mob/
09/06/2022: SADS = Sudden Adult Death Syndrome. This may have something to do with that sudden 21% increase in the death rate I posted about yesterday. You will be hearing more about this: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/sudden-adult-death-syndrome-because-young-people-die-just-like-that/
08/06/2022: Interesting visual
illusion. I’m sure the ‘blob seems to grow for you too:
08/06/2022: Why are so many of us suddenly dying – a 21% increase in the death rate would have to be worrying, surely. No wonder the hospitals and ambulances are overwhelmed: https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/overall-deaths-in-australia-where?s=r I guess over 1,000 excess deaths in Vic so far this year. Not so many as the 1919 ‘swine flu’ perhaps but when we add up the totals world-wide for this artificial bioweapon (when the final tallies are in – whenever) we will see many millions – all down to the CCP and their ‘running dogs ‘ in the ‘capitalist’ West who sought to profiteer and/or gain prominence via them.
08/06/2022: I always find Bettina Arndt to be interesting and refreshing, “Somehow, we need to convince Coalition politicians that they have long been bleeding votes from ordinary folk who have had a gutful of seeing women endlessly privileged whilst the men they love, their fathers, sons, brothers, and friends, are pushed to the back of the bus and at every point denied fair treatment” https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/pandering-to-women-wont-save-the-libs/
08/06/2022: Stranger and stranger: Apparently the BBC has some difficulty with the concept that if you are a lesbian you can be raped by a ‘woman’ with a penis: https://spectator.com.au/2022/06/rape-victims-testimony-changed-to-avoid-misgendering-attacker/
07/06/2022: Oldest most famous baby passes: https://www.yahoo.com/news/ann-turner-cook-original-gerber-165519712.html
07/06/2022: 1,000 Starships to Mars. Elon thinking big. Maybe time you read Kim Stanley Robinson’s ‘Mars’ Trilogy too ($6.52 from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Red-Mars-Trilogy-Book-ebook/dp/B000QCS914) : https://www.theepochtimes.com/musk-plans-to-build-1000-starships-to-transport-1-million-people-to-mars-a-fleet-of-modern-noahs-arks_4513578.html
07/06/2022: The covid death data is very strange (https://www.covid19data.com.au/deaths). For example, can anyone explain why Vic has (if anything) a higher death toll than NSW and indeed nearly half the nation’s daily toll whilst having only one quarter of the population? Is maybe Dan’s wonderful Health Dept not doing such a great job? Indeed, could more be done to reduce this awful toll? Is there any reason really for not ensuring that people have adequate Vitamin D and Zinc levels or are treated expeditiously with Iodine (nasal spray and gargle) on earliest infection and with Ivermectin, Hydrpxychloroquine etc to reduce these terrible numbers. Could Dan actually want us dead? We are up to an average of nearly 20 a day in Vic now (an annualised toll of over 7,000!) https://infogram.com/1pk2mjgqvrqwv0t9r2nn6k3qnlb51w6gdg
07/06/2022: The WEF, “You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.” So full of creepy ideas (and people of Scottish backgrounds!) Let’s cancel this awful talkfest: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/top-10-creepiest-and-most-dystopian-things-pushed-world-economic-forum-wef
06/06/2022: Amazing behaviour from bison – I have witnessed similar ‘grieving’ with our sheep. They are not ‘just dumb animals’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twN5udogfwc&t=67s
06/06/2022: What sort of state/world are we living in where 2537 children are being completely neglected and 65 have even died? It is easy enough to fix this. It does not need a huge injection of cash, just a return to common sense: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/concerning-backlog-impacting-vulnerable-victorian-kids/news-story/4f36dd5a2745085ed5fdb55430169148
06/06/2022: This young ‘lady’ is going to find getting ‘dates’ a whole lot harder: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/police-courts-victoria/how-class-snobbery-put-a-tradie-on-trial-for-rape/news-story/d03a9e95bda665418305749389cf8119
06/06/2022: This is bizarre: Why for
the UN is one mosque massacre so much worse than countless church massacres?
When Moslems have killed 60,000 Christians over the last ten years: https://richardsonpost.com/raymond-ibrahim/27256/which-massacre-is-more-important/
Here is (just) the latest
05/06/2022: Taking ‘bending over
backwards’ to new extremes: https://twistedsifter.com/videos/a-mongolian-contortionist-broke-the-guinness-world-record-by-performing-the-marinelli-bend-for-over-four-minutes/
05/06/2022: A mother showed the kind of courage (and rationality) the police are paid for. Listen to what she says: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/06/guts-plus-mum-should-be-compulsory-viewing-for-all-police-recruits.html
05/06/2022: The whole green energy boondoggle is a dangerous fantasy: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2022/06/green-energy-chickens-coming-home-roost-bruce-thornton/ & https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/06/australian_voters_have_set_themselves_up_for_a_green_nightmare.html
05/06/2022:
04/06/2022: Why did ‘global warming’ stop as long ago as last century. It’s such a spoil-sport. At least it could wait around until all the suicidal economic measures fail to have any effect: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/evidence-suggests-global-warming-ran-steam-years-ago-experts-argue-global-temps-remained-flat-20-years/
04/06/2022: Demographic change is a killer. Actually I am astonished that ‘average’ family incomes anywhere are nearly $120K – where did we miss out? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/progressive-parties-are-the-party-of-the-rich/
04/06/2022: “The
04/06/2022: “It follows that, if it happened now, net zero emissions would result in death by starvation of several billion people.” John Reid: https://blackjay.net.au/managing-austerity/
03/06/2022: Happy Birthday Pebbles: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/south-carolina-dog-oldest-living-world
03/06/2022: Hundreds of elderly
patients are presenting and many dying from hypothermia (in their own homes) in
Now Dan’s fracking ban starts to bite
as well: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/victorias-gas-supply-problem-wont-go-away-quickly-according-to-industry-leader/news-story/95eac6f7a18e3ef5cf1a77813fa7ae16
03/06/2022: Once we could have saved ourselves in 15 years – now, I’m not so sure. We have not trained a single nuclear engineer this century: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/amazing-what-the-west-could-do-france-went-from-0-to-56-nuclear-reactors-in-just-15-years/
03/06/2022: Yes, when 19 people are murdered the real facts are important: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tucker-some-things-in-uvalde-dont-make-sense/
02/06/2022: Go, Johnny, Go: https://www.skynews.com.au/world-news/united-states/johnny-depp-wins-defamation-case-against-amber-heard/video/a0422c89d6581ff7dabcfaa6e3391b81
02/06/2022: Divide and rule in ‘
02/06/2022: A painful birth? Is there anything you can not do to ‘save the planet’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/06/follow-the-science-painful-births-might-improve-the-weather-if-we-go-anesthetic-free-will-we-hold-back-the-tide/
02/06/2022: Auron MacIntyre’s ‘Rise
of the Midwits’ is an astonishing revelation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9agM261CSJU&t=549s
01/06/2022: Even
01/06/2022: After the sausage finally dies… “land no longer needed for meat production could be used towards progressive ends, such as the creation of worker-owned farms, returning land to Indigenous nations and peoples, rewilding, and other conservation uses” It is unclear though whether these good folk will be paying us for our Jeeralang hills or whether anyone else actually wants to do the work of looking after them: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/31/the-misguided-meat-vortex/
01/06/2022: Why can’t the folk of
01/06/2022: It is a very different
‘diverse’
31/05/2022: Destroying a 1,000 year old forest to build wind turbines to protect us from an imaginary (CO2) threat makes me both sad and angry: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/cult-of-green-because-no-1000-year-old-forest-is-complete-without-industrial-wind-turbines/
31/05/2022: Undoubtedly the worst thing the Liberal Party has done recently is to expel Bernie Finn. It needs more such principled conservatives, not fewer. The National’s dumping of Barnaby is another such folly: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/05/a-tough-week-to-be-a-victorian-liberal/
31/05/2022: 14 lessons from the Uvalde tragedy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/wayne-root-14-lessons-every-conservative-patriot-learned-tragic-texas-school-shooting-hint-democrats-will-shocked-horrified/ Even more significantly: https://nypost.com/2022/05/27/we-overlook-a-significant-factor-in-mass-shootings-fatherlessness/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=android_nyp
Of course schools can be protected (like banks): https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/there_is_a_way_to_stop_school_shootings.html
31/05/2022: Heinlein’s crazy years:
Man dressed as woman in wheelchair shouting "think of the earth"
hurls cake at Mona Lisa painting.
30/05/2022: Not nearly enough data (yet) really – eg the average age/health status of the victims. Still 1740 dead this year (only four months of 2022) is a lot: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/coronavirus/professor-peter-doherty-theres-no-zero-baseline-for-determining-vaccine-efficacy/news-story/cab6080a3d67b4590d80770cb4890629 The greatest wickedness is that (still) long-established prevention and treatment are not being widely used. These elderly people are often still poor in zinc and Vitamin D for example which would help prevent respiratory infections. They also do not have access to cheap effective remedies as the first line of action ie, Betadine nasal spray and gargle (to reduce viral load) and eg ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine which have both been shown in hundreds of studies to reduce illness and death rates.
30/05/2022: Cannon-Brookes really
intends to close down the remaining coal-fired electricity generators ASAP.
He has clearly got control of AGL today. This is the same strategy which
eliminated the mountain cattlemen in Vic, ie basically greens buying up assets
then closing them down. Unless there is public or government intervention
(unlikely now) this will quickly result in electricity shortages and economic
collapse which will blight the rest of our lives. Wake up
30/05/2022:
God (or the Govt) help us if MIT don’t
know: “To enable economical long-duration energy storage (> 12
hours), the DOE should support research, development, and demonstration to
advance alternative electrochemical storage technologies that rely on
earth-abundant materials. Cost, lifetime, and manufacturing scale
requirements for long-duration energy storage favor the exploration of novel
electro-chemical technologies, such as redox-flow and metal-air batteries that
use inexpensive charge-storage materials and battery designs that are better
suited for long-duration applications. (Emphasis in original.). The feds
will “support research” into “novel technologies,” of course using the infinite
money pile, and the technology will magically appear. And what exactly is the
technology that will then emerge to rescue us? They have no idea” : https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-5-26-mit-weighs-in-on-energy-storage
(Long) before you decide to mandate something you need to know that is actually
feasible. To power a large city (
29/05/2022: Another problem with electric windows. I think people are just too enamoured of electrical gadgets. I predict that the fear of being incinerated/drowned will seriously affect the uptake of electric vehicles: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/tesla-catches-fires-at-intersection/
29/05/2022: Still (Always?) playing ‘catch-up’ on Defence: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/if-threats-of-a-pacific-war-became-reality-how-prepared-is-australia/news-story/b77751f7d2b40b06be70e5f60695b1bf
29/05/2022: How much truth is there
in the story of
29/05/2022: One week out and the Labor Party still doesn’t have a majority. It is looking more like an awful Labor-Greens coalition: https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HousePartyRepresentationLeading-27966.htm
28/05/2022: Fawcett’s lost cities of the Amazon really did exist: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lost-cities-of-the-amazon-discovered-from-the-air-180980142/
28/05/2022: If only we were a little
more like
28/05/2022: Forget about giving more power to commie shill Tedros: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/who-chief-wants-to-run-the-world-for-china-biden-boris-albanese-is-ok-with-that-but-africa-puts-the-brakes-on/ & https://www.facebook.com/100059886518825/videos/584238123039468
28/05/2022: In Oz our security services manage to prevent many of these horrific incidents because just like these latest two incidents in the US there is frequently prior warning, but we are now 24 hour surveilling around 1,000 folk (that we have been told about): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/retired-federal-agent-regular-communication-buffalo-shooter-may-advance-notice-gendrons-plans-murder-black-people/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/two-unnamed-boys-age-shooter-arrested-2018-planning-columbine-style-shooting-uvalde-school-2022/
Wow! That was close! What a hero
though: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/photos-of-off-duty-border-agent-who-killed-salvador-ramos/
27/05/2022: A Japanese man now identifies as a dog – you can be whatever you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpyUgXyTXhc
27/05/2022: What the world ‘needs’ right now – a carbon footprint tracker and carbon ‘rationing’, but not of course if you need a personal jet to fly to Davos: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/alibaba-president-shares-world-economic-forum-carbon-footprint-tracker-technology-individuals/ Remember back in 1972 when we had ‘just’ 10 years to save the planet: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/climate-nazi-wants-to-track-your-climate-footprint/
27/05/2022: You thought it was over? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/south-australia-has-gone-mad/ PS: You can now have Novavax as a booster if you refuse mRNA vaccines.
27/05/2022: Realistically the DIY FGC-9 semi-automatic spelled the end for gun control measures. Mental health measures (as well as better - especially school - security) might just be more useful in preventing awful disasters like Uvalde. We are not immune here in Oz: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/building-the-fgc-9-getting-started-with-3d-printing-part-1/ Imagine there being no-one (and no thing) in the school to prevent (or respond to) such an event. Imagine also the police waiting outside preventing eg parents from entering – remember the Lindt Café siege - (for an hour) while the maniac murdered the children until he was shot by an off-duty border officer!
26/05/2022: The Thanatosdrakon “dragon of death’ with a 30 foot (10 metre) wingspan – sure glad this guy isn’t still around here: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/05/24/argentina-scientists-discover-dragon-of-death-fossil/8821653431164/
26/05/2022: Can you believe Bob Dylan is 81? Oh, we are getting ancient here at Jeeralang Junction too: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/not-dark-yet-contd-6.php
26/05/2022: More about the Jan 6
conspiracy – the
26/05/2022: The tyranny of climate
compliance: The cheapest new car in Australia (at present ie May 2022) is the
Mitsubishi Mirage (Drive away A$17490) approx 700 km range: https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/the-10-cheapest-cars-on-sale-in-australia
Say you drove it for twenty years (300,000km) then threw it away. Annual (capital) cost is $1500 per year.
Most of us can afford that. For comparison, the Jones family ‘normally’ buy a
second-hand (often damaged eg by hail) car for around $1500 with around
150,000km on the clock. We usually have little trouble driving them for a
further 150,000 km (or ten years!) without spending any money except on tyres,
oil, spark plugs, filters, brake pads, shockers perhaps – all work done myself.
I have a paddock full of them as proof! They are probably still worth
$500-$1000 so let’s say an annual cost of
approx $100 per year – at most $150! We have been doing that for forty+
years! The cheapest electric car in
25/05/2022: Cats: I have been
wondering about them. We haven’t had one for very many years ourselves
(though I quite like them personally) and also have a vermin-proof fence so
foxes are excluded (even though I admire foxes but do not appreciate them eg
eating all our lambs). Like everyone else we have had a rodent plague
(especially this year) which other predators (owls, hawks etc) have not kept up
with. I have been wondering whether the ‘demonisation’ of cats is at all
justified. A few years ago I discovered (evidence from the WA government’s cat
and fox baiting strategy) that targeting
foxes alone ended up causing a larger (90%!) drop in native critters (because
of the build up of cats whom foxes also predate) than actually doing nothing.
This rather surprised me. Over there they decided to target both together and
developed a bait for cats (unavailable in the East apparently). I have always
noticed that cats kill a really lot of rodents – at least ten times (I reckon)
the number of birds they also unfortunately do take (one of the reasons we don’t
have one). However, we have had this dreadful build-up of rodents and possums
(and because someone is feeding them) of kookaburras. All these things are
known dreadful predators of birds. Many small birds have almost disappeared
from our garden (despite the vermin-proof fence). Eg we have not seen a wagtail
for nearly two years. The last one/s we saw were disappearing down the maw of
the kookaburras. I am actually wondering whether the anti-cat strategy is
actually harming birds because of the build-up of these other nasty predators
which cats would help to control. Rats and possums (particularly) eat a huge
number of eggs and baby birds. PS: I notice the emerald folk are now calling
for the banning of rodent poisons – if successful, that should add a further
disastrous element to this ecological apocalypse! I really hope
25/05/2022: Apparently there are people who didn't realise this was satire.
25/05/2022: Another Earth – maybe somewhere to go to get away from this mess: https://www.sci-nature.com/2022/05/its-official-astronomers-have.html?fbclid=IwAR3zPXnPmL5ewNYo3fxIxfmkCZ-3Yefg6YlV8yzp9q9l-5tp0tFPYHSSwlU
25/05/2022: Demographic change is a
killer – in the long run it will be more of a killer for Labor if the Libs decide to man up and concentrate on
winning the hearts and minds of real working Australians, “the Coalition now
holding 16 of the 20 poorest federal seats. From the
These are people who weren’t born into wealth but work hard to create financial security for their families. They care about energy costs more than emission targets. They care about their children being properly educated rather than indoctrinated in school. They love their country and are not embarrassed by it like so many privileged and self-loathing Greens and teals” https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-the-teal-mps-were-expecting-to-wield-enormous-power-but-are-now-redundant/news-story/9d77556decdce4322387d36109d00221
25/05/2022: Astonishing:
24/05/2022: The Liberals were warned (repeatedly), ‘Go Woke, Go Broke!’ Why you should subscribe to The Spectator even just the free to read three articles per week edition (however it only costs $4 a week for full digital access). If you had you would have received this (Double Shot) gem today by Alexandra Marshall,
“The Liberals were warned (repeatedly), ‘Go Woke, Go Broke!’ If nothing
else, this federal election served as a reckoning against the soggy, wet,
gangrenous Liberals sitting in wealthy
As for voters, what happened on Saturday was entirely predictable. It has long been said that Climate Change is a death cult. Its architects have spent years terrifying children and guilt-tripping their wealthy parents. The only thing left to do was sit this guilt-ridden privileged class in front of a polling booth and offer them a way to ‘virtue signal’ out of sin. It was like dropping a coin into the collection plate. One vote – guaranteed saviour status. The consequence of this selfish action will be felt by the poorer electorates next door who already struggle to afford the necessary energy to heat their homes in the freezing Winter that isn’t supposed to exist.
All of us must pay extra tax to sate the original sin of fantasy climate guilt, but when the apocalypse fails to manifest and all the sacred relics and priests are de-frocked, a different sort of blue sea will rise. Editor Rowan Dean said it best on Sunday morning, ‘Scott Morrison and the Coalition did not lose government last night. They lost it on November 1 last year, when Scott Morrison stood in front of an adoring crowd of climate cultists in Glasgow and committed Australia to the ridiculous pledge of “Net Zero by 2050”.’
Conservatives have tough years ahead of them, but according to some commentators, this may have been the election they needed to lose in order to expel the wets and rebuild the base. As for the Teals, Greens, and Labor, the problem with building the foundation of a political party on a fiction with an imminent deadline is that the deadline will come to pass – and then what? As Andrew L. Urban writes, Climate Change is the wolf that isn’t there. While Climate Change’s use-by date sits a few years off, Kristina Keneally finally failed her way into oblivion (we hope), managing to lose one of the safest Labor seats around. Thank heavens for small miracles”.
You would also be able to read this subsequent excellent piece by Alexandra: https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/decarbonising-the-liberal-moderates/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020220523%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020220523%20%20GK+CID_e903cc33f023769f15f174016ae820a0&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=De-carbonising%20the%20Liberal%20moderates
24/05/2022: Steve Kates is also
always worth a read. I particularly liked his quote from ‘Bruce’ from
That’s because the voters demand this stupidity. The MSM demands it. The whole of the nation is stuck in a lemming-like race to disaster which only a literal disaster will crack the people out of.
The Covid arc illustrates this. You had guys like McGowan immensely popular for converting his entire state into a prison camp to save the people from a virus so innocuous that people often don’t know they have it. It took two years of disaster – closed businesses, lost jobs, lockdowns, vaccine injuries, masking and elderly parents dying alone for the people to suddenly, overnight, get over it. Now the pollies don’t mention the virus and it’s like it never existed.
The people haven’t yet gotten to this point on the climate scam, but they will once the pain really amps up. Which it is just starting to, particularly electricity and fuel prices. But with the elites all Believing like religious fanatics even that’s not going to be enough. Saving the world syndrome is a very powerful hubristic drug. It may take a full-on political apocalypse to stop these people saving us from an apocalypse which isn’t happening”: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/22/about-as-bad-as-it-could-have-been/
24/05/2022: You have some power after all, How to hide your house on every map app: https://www.popsci.com/diy/hide-home-map-apps/
24/05/2022: Already – a link between
Monkeypox and the
23/05/2022: The Life & Adventures of John Nicol
Mariner, 1822. You should read this (for free) He came on the Lady Juliana
(1791) so has interesting first hand observations of early Sydney Town,
particularly the behaviour of our ‘indigenous’ denizens whom he found utterly
reprehensible: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600031h.html
23/05/2022: They told us this?
23/05/2022: A (bare) majority Labor government with less than one-third of the primary vote! I think this though really was ‘the elephant in the room’. There was zero mention during the election campaign about the ‘climate’. Had there been the outer-suburbanites and rural folk who need to be able to drive cars, have electricity, air cons, wood fires, sheep and cattle and maybe a holiday somewhere else some day would have shouted a big negative ‘No!’ against the greens and like-minded dim-witted people, just as they did when Tony famously admitted that ‘climate change is bullshit’ – as it is. We need a seismic shift to the right in politics, and a lot more truth. Perhaps now the Libs have divested themselves of most of their green fifth columnists it may happen. The older I get the less I want to live in what the world has become. : https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/the-secret-climate-election-we-didnt-know-we-had/
22/05/2022: Should we
send them a reply? https://notthebee.com/article/fifty-years-ago-astronomers-detected-what-is-considered-the-best-evidence-of-an-alien-radio-signal-from-space-now-one-astronomer-says-he-may-have-found-out-where-it-came-from
22/05/2022: Monkeypox (a smallpox variant). Is it another ‘gay plague? Anyway the WHO missed it: https://thehill.com/news/ap/ap-health/monkeypox-spreads-in-west-baffling-african-scientists/amp/
Just so sanitary. Forget hand sanitisers and masks: https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/18646557/monkeypox-outbreak-europe-cases-island-festival/
22/05/2022: Remember
how they tried organic agriculture in
Will our next PM be
Dutton or Hastie?
21/05/2022: The
‘democracy snags’ at Yinnar were so good I may go back and vote again a couple
of more times. In retrospect I see I should have bought a lot more of them
– before they are banned because…cooked on gas, made from beef, methane
emissions, etc, etc
21/05/2022: It begins - if you haven't voted yet , do so now. Remember back in 2013 (under Labor) how there were over 100 illegals arriving every single day. since Scott not a single one: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-live-updates-from-key-electorates-polling-booths/live-coverage/2848ff10c6528c74baf9a400c613af24
21/05/2022: The Voyage of Pytheas: https://www.ancientpages.com/2021/05/29/pytheass-voyage-to-the-arctic-in-325-b-c-and-account-of-thule-the-strange-land-beyond/?fbclid=IwAR0WGF4bVpsLtXjIVqSf8qGdcJ8b1qsP1qLBb7Bq-4AsUx0a-gXiXP-uYDs
21/05/2022: Just a nonsense idea in
the first place. We have been able to manage (approx 50-80 year) rotation
of sustainable logging in state forests for 150 years whilst preserving the
very critters which are now being moved into ‘National Parks’ protection just
to be destroyed by vicious uncontrolled wildfires. The greenies really do hate
the bush: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/110m-plantation-bid-fails-victorias-timber-shortage-to-worsen/news-story/f9d63028249a536e6acc44832b962f04
21/05/2022: That was a good idea then (This is no ‘junk’ study either). New Study Finds mRNA Vaccines Actually Hurt Long-Term Immunity to Covid Compared to the Unvaccinated: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/new-study-finds-mrna-vaccines-actually-hurt-long-term-immunity-covid-compared-unvaccinated/
Furthermore those awful masks actually increased your risk of death. Great: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/another-study-confirms-wearing-masks-increases-infection-covid/
21/05/2022: Even on
election eve the almost the largest single voting bloc is people who say “a pox
on both your houses”. 29%. A record by a long shot. Neither the pollsters
nor anyone else can say where all these people's preferences will end up. I am
one of them and I know but there are several million others and only a handful
of us need to swing one way or another. It is obvious to me that we cannot risk
another government dominated by the Green nightmare but it will be an
interesting night tonight: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/election-day-anything-but-the-uniparty-majors-a-record-29-of-australians-want-another-choice/
One thing I note, the changes to the Senate voting system (clearly intended to
make it harder for minor parties to obtain a ‘quota’) could just as easily lead
to the last couple of Senate places failing to get a quota at all! So what
happens when (after successive half-Senate elections) the Senate is still
undecided? I for one am heartily sick of the two major parties colluding
in this way (as they have with several changes to the voting system over the
last few years) to ensure that one or other of them has to form government. Such collusion is in fact fascism.
Unfortunately Steve Kates is right. Let’s hope he is not also a Cassandra: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/05/21/it-would-be-a-madness-to-allow-labor-to-govern-if-it-is-at-all-possible-to-prevent-it/
20/05/2022: Soon from Apple ‘augmented reality’ ie the reality they want you to see: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/19/apple-gave-mixed-reality-headset-demo-to-board-of-directors-report.html
20/05/2022: How would we fare in an intergalactic war? I think Stephen Hawking was right – we should keep a low profile: https://interestingengineering.com/how-to-stop-alien-invasion
20/05/2022: After electing left-wing
governments in the
Do you want a liar as PM, someone who isn’t even eligible to stand (because of his dual citizenship): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/the-abc-publishes-photo-of-mr-and-mrs-carlo-albanese-to-help-their-son-with-section-44-citizenship-d.html Someone who has never had a job (other than with the left wing of the Labor Party)? https://spectator.com.au/2022/05/history-stands-against-albanese/
20/05/2022: So it seems our ‘masters’ pocket huge sums in Swiss bank accounts so Pfizer & etc can experiment on us: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/would-350-million-from-big-pharma-be-enough-to-buy-fauci-and-nih-approval-who-knows-its-a-secret/
19/05/2022: When a frog tries to mate
with your boot we know something is wrong but when a human male tries to mate
with someone other than a female we see it as the ‘new normal’. Oh come on: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/frogs-keep-mating-with-the-wrong-things/ar-AAXnLCy?ocid=BingNews
19/05/2022: Elon will need to get a much better bargain if he buys Twitter: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/quick-tell-the-investors-twitter-is-a-kindergarten-for-communists-not-there-to-make-profits/
19/05/2022: This ‘pandemic treaty’ will end our national sovereignty and hand control of us over to faceless WHO bureaucrats – not to mention the CCP: Australia set to sign Geneva’s Global Pandemic Treaty | The Spectator Australia & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/another-un-who-power-grab-global-pandemic-treaty-is-a-trillion-dollar-business-deal/
Notice how the WHO has stopped the spread of monkey pox for example: https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/05/18/monkeypox-what-we-know-so-far-about-the-smallpox-like-virus-detected-in-the-uk
19/05/2022: Morrison on Government:
“It’s time to get the hell out, time for you to get your life back. You’re in
charge again, you’re back in the driver’s seat, you’re sick to death of state
governments and everyone else telling you what to do.” Exactly. You know
that’s all you’ll get with the socialists. A reminder: Penny Wong as Number 2!
“
18/05/2022: Is it a doorway on Mars – sure looks like one but they would have to be tiny people. Nature is full of surprises: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nasa-rover-spots-a-doorway-on-mars/
18/05/2022: When diversity isn’t so good: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/05/diversity_isnt_always_good.html
18/05/2022: Classic Albo: “I don’t run away from Press Conferences": https://scontent.fmel16-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-4/280784471_1160895668077891_6343683890560388774_n.mp4?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-6&_nc_sid=985c63&efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9zZCJ9&_nc_ohc=7Gdpg9o657kAX_rRC_E&_nc_ht=scontent.fmel16-1.fna&edm=AN6CN6oEAAAA&oh=00_AT8Q1doIlHNZcxT8M0yhvenJI6QvZy_rxyfGyb26L-tDlw&oe=62844D38
18/05/2022: Long-term climate data
such as the
18/05/2022: Choose freedom not socialist control on Saturday. Surely you recall the difference in approach between the Liberal and Labor states over covid (NSW vs Vic for example) . Dictator Dan here in Vic is just Anthony Albanese writ small if we give him the power federally: https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/we-re-all-paying-for-a-new-world-of-big-government-20220512-p5akua?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1AzB6yMM3S6fOw4st69MPUCMkkVpoEne8gfh7L3nHFPMMmzK6tL-zI-98#Echobox=1652428920 I liked Tony Abbott’s new motto over the weekend: Vote Lib for “lower taxes, more freedom, better defence”.
17/05/2022: What a gutless incompetent tool Albo is – he won’t release his costings (Thursday) until the Libs can’t reply with any advertising about it. How contemptuous of the Australian people can you get? https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/anthony-albanese-grilled-by-reporters-over-transparency-around-budget-deficit-before-scrambling-out-of-press-conference/news-story/878123cb0767e71870605423c041237e
17/05/2022: Food shortages – something real to worry about for once: https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/india-bans-wheat-exports-food-security-threat
17/05/2022: It’s not just his memory: Albo is seriously dumb and just can’t do sums. Why would you want this retard in charge of your country? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10817387/Anthony-Albanese-confuses-minimum-pay-rise-1-hour-1-week.html?ito=social-facebook_Australia&fbclid=IwAR0we-rC_mnPMMqnVsYGBuqPS90n6IlIB-_lW8eH4GxVoqn6mGFY9s_s-YM
17/05/2022: Sky News host Sharri Markson says this election is “neck and neck” and it is not a “certain victory” for Labor. I hope she is right: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/this-election-is-neck-and-neck-sharri-markson/video/b998882dfcaf5b77218361945fad755d
17/05/2022: The
This guy is quite right though – such crimes certainly merit the death penalty, quickly and without undue fanfare: https://www.city-journal.org/execute-buffalo-shooter
16/05/2022: A million-fold increase in
computer speeds would see the human race become redundant: https://scitechdaily.com/laser-pulses-for-ultrafast-signal-processing-could-make-computers-a-million-times-faster/
16/05/2022: Don’t you just love
‘anachronisms’? eg: https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/ancient-wheel-0010997?fbclid=IwAR1cGl2FJYQTXLBHFT4O3dF8HKdOPfEsy8iMFyRyOXlUMVP76VrQZ3ItmZE
16/05/2022: That YouGov poll the other day alarmed me too but with a sample size of 125 per electorate it is just a nonsense – besides who answers the phone to these anonymous people any more? Labor voters apparently, probably because they are more credulous. The election will be decided by those ‘undecided’ voters who certainly don’t vote early. Besides, as the Lib’s ‘campaign opening’ yesterday shows, Scott still has a few tricks up his sleeve: https://www.news.com.au/national/voters-should-take-new-poll-predicting-labor-victory-with-a-pinch-of-salt/video/d05cec9c519b9ac22d2a7f5a3f84baf6
16/05/2022: “This pandemic treaty is the greatest power grab any of us has seen in our lifetime”, Neil Oliver. If you did not know, we are rushing to sign up to yet another international treaty ceding our sovereignty to unelected international bureaucrats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gafV6YhhnAQ
15/05/2022:
15/05/2022: 45 years: Gone for a very long walk indeed: https://indefiniteleave.com.au/story-john-the-highway-man/?fbclid=IwAR3LspqrjpCuyOTPAmjPvhty1EAkvd2I2GtKeAQVelXR0NPON8oJ0gxQ-h8
15/05/2022: Seriously worrying: Are the Covid vaccines killing people over time? The data suggests yes: https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/are-the-covid-vaccines-killing-people-over-time-the-data-suggests-yes/
15/05/2022: That Bastard Albanese? A man who still lies on his electoral nomination form that he doesn’t know who his own father is - even though he has explained extensively to the ABC that he does and has met him and now claims to be Italian - is not fit to be PM: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/albanese-now-openly-italian-good-thing-for-the-court-of-disputed-returns-to-know.html & https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/compare-contrast-albaneses-electoral-nomination-form-dated-15422-with-what-he-told-the-abc.html NB: Several years ago (You remember?) every other ‘dual citizen’ had to resign &/or repudiate their other ‘citizenship’ or they were not eligible to hold office – but not Albo apparently.
14/05/2022: A magic weight-loss pill? Maybe not. I know that for me (most folks I suspect) it's always too many calories: https://doctorbuzz.substack.com/p/a-new-drug-will-help-you-shed-50?s=w
14/05/2022:
14/05/2022: ‘Too dumb to be PM’ - Of course this is true Michael Kroger – the guy can hardly talk and can certainly not hold a fact in his head for a minute. You would have to be as dumb as dog s—t yourself to vote for such a Bozo. My guess is that the huge ‘undecided’ mob (27% at least) are not that dumb: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/michael_kroger_says_albanese_is_too_dumb_to_be_prime_minister And have you thought for a minute about the nightmares life would be like under a Labor-Greens Government. Here’s just two examples: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/labor_is_locking_up_cattle_stations_and_turning_them_into_carbon_farms & https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/aussie_manufacturers_are_shutting_factories_because_of_expensive_and_unstable_energy
14/05/2022: “Keeping you safe and sorting out the lies is your job” (not Twitter’s), Bill Maher. We have always been surrounded by lies and propaganda of one sort or another. Each ‘side’ will always say that the other’s ‘lies’ are ‘false’. Up to now you had (and were allowed) to make up your own mind – a difficult process I admit, but your essential freedom to choose; now Facebook, Twitter, Google etc can do that onerous chore for you. Some thoughts from Victor David Hanson to make you wonder: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-imagine-unimaginable
13/05/2022: You know the world has gone completely mad when Madonna gives birth to a tree: https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2022/05/11/madonna-scanned-her-whole-body-for-charity-including-her-you-know-n1597043 You can even ‘win’ a 3D model of her vagina: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/madonna-selling-3d-model-of-her-vagina-in-nft-graphic-auction/news-story/d5af9f9f06025440ce61aa33ecb1e87c & Yes, it’s true: https://motherofcreation.xyz/
13/05/2022: Do we want to become like
13/05/2022: Good advice, “Never trust people who are called experts by others or who call themselves experts. Almost all have an agenda. People should question everything they are told, especially if the source is the media, the government, entertainers, or educators” : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/05/why_does_anyone_continue_to_treat_people_as_experts_when_they_are_so_consistently_wrong.html
13/05/2022: The evidence keeps pouring in showing the utter failure of all COVID mandates yet we have wasted billions and lost our precious freedoms over them – all for nothing! https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/the-evidence-keeps-pouring-in-showing-the-utter-failure-of-all-covid-mandates/
12/05/2022: A New Knee: As you may know I have been having trouble with my left knee (especially) for quite some time – around nine years in fact. I have tried just about everything to make it better as the posts I Kneed You, A Cure for Knee Pain, & Knee Cure News will make clear to you, but finally it became too much and I just had to ‘bite the bullet’ so to speak and go for a complete replacement. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/12/a-new-knee/
12/05/2022: "The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks." - C. S. Lewis.
12/05/2022: May have to get one of these jet-packs as I am certainly not walking up mountains as quickly or easily as I once did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLrVxEJ7pZ8
12/05/2022: The perfect murder - if only he had hired an excavator: https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-carolina-heart-attack-killed
12/05/2022: Personally I just can’t
believe the polls – an Albanese Government would be an economic disaster, just
as the Andrews Government has been for
09/05/2022: Holy Cow: https://www.skynews.com.au/business/science/helicopter-catches-space-rocket-booster/video/fa8c73c26517148012e6a8ca397e937b
09/05/2022: New
09/05/2022: Ask yourself: Do we want a repeat of these clowns – and a leader even worse than Ju-Liar? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-tony-windsor-rob-oakeshott-reject-independent-chaos-fears/news-story/6e5c831a98ea96eed8c80d560598733e
09/05/2022: How
07/05/2022: What if we have been profoundly wrong about children: https://accordingtohoyt.com/2022/05/05/what-if-weve-been-profoundly-wrong/
For example: https://freemansperspective.com/children-must-be-made-to-work/
07/05/2022: Should we have a nuclear
war over
07/05/2022: Lakes Entrance: It’s lovely
to take a day off during the warmer months and spend it driving up and back to
Lakes Entrance (Gippsland). Because of the awful fence they have now built down
the middle of the road between
A refreshing walk across the bridge at Lakes to look at the beach and study the bird-life is just about de rigeur but mostly we go up so we can buy a heap of fresh school prawns from the fishing boat there. They usually cost around $25 a kilo but they are the very best prawns you have never eaten. We always by a few kilos so we can have a few really good feeds over the next few months. Somehow we never buy enough and always run our before the next summer! Della and I managed to eat a whole kilo between us for tea! https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/07/lakes-entrance/
They are so much more delicious than the ‘cardboard’ prawns you are used to
eating from the supermarket or fish shop. They take my mind back to when I was
a small boy growing up around the shores of
07/05/2022: A print of this painting has been on my bedroom wall for maybe 75 years. I had never been able to determine what it was before but now (thanks to the magic of Google – and Della) I know it is by this guy George Philibert Charles Maroniez 1865-1933. I can see that I can buy a hand-painted reproduction (not this painting) for A$433.85 delivered which I think I will go with – though I would dearly love a better copy of the one I have which my mother must have cut out of a magazine when she was decorating my bedroom before I was born. https://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Georges-Philibert-Charles-Maroniez/Sunset.html He did many similar paintings some of which can be bought for $5-10K. I may also consider that. It is unlikely that they will reduce in value after all.
07/05/2022: Interesting thoughts about ‘the spectrum’: https://skepticalinquirer.org/exclusive/is-autism-really-a-spectrum/
07/05/2022: Yes, Pauline is right about Albo’s ‘housing plan’. It is a plan to remove home ownership, not to enable it: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/26876/pauline-hanson-is-right-labor-housing-plan-is-great-reset-down-under/
07/05/2022: Can’t afford to buy in
07/05/2022: More bad news about mRNA vaccines (like Pfizer and Adenovirus vector vaccines like Astra Zenica) - stuff that was concealed all along behind a push to conform. This has so harmed the traditional vaccine approach which is what should have been used all along. Too much new stuff rushing at us from all directions: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/05/pfizergate-new-documents-confirm-vaccine-goes-to-liver-spleen-and-ovaries-in-animal-studies/
PS: We are apparently still seeing that ‘excess mortality’ - in younger groups: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/shock-video-equity-investment-executive-dowd-excess-deaths-running-around-20-first-quarter-2022/
07/05/2022: Sterilisation yet? Don’t I remember safe, effective and available contraception happening somewhere back in the 60s? Did I miss something? Isn’t there a huge unmet demand (from already sterile couples) to adopt ‘unwanted’ babies and to provide them with very good lives – and hasn’t this been the case in fact for generations? I can agree to a ‘morning-after’ pill (especially if women have been raped), even to procedures up to say a ‘fetal heartbeat’ point (ie about six weeks in – usually plenty of time to find out whether you are pregnant surely? - If you did not know, not just if you changed your mind) but there comes a time (then) when the child within also must be deemed to deserve protection (from homicide) just as other human beings do. A baby (let’s please call ‘it’ that) can survive from around 20 weeks (if born). This will become earlier with the perfection of ‘artificial wombs’. After that point surely only the lives of the two people concerned are relevant (not ‘wishes’ or ‘convenience’). I get that women ought not be forced to continue with a pregnancy if it will actually kill them, but then maybe often the baby can be induced and raised rather than being chopped into pieces and killed (for preference). The ‘pro-abortionists’ have to move away from the issue of ‘women’s rights’ and consider ‘human rights’ (ie the rights of the child – and father too) and face the fact that what we are arguing about is whether any form of murder (Yes it is) should be legal: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/female-sterilization-options-roe-decision
06/05/2022: It was not an ambush: Rachel Bexendale & Greg Brown in the Australian today: “Ahead of a lunchtime speech to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in which his team had indicated it planned to speak of building upon Labor legacies such as the NDIS and after he made reference on Wednesday to Labor’s ‘six-point plan’ Mr Albanese was asked to outline the six points.
“The six points are what we will do, in terms of, was
outlined by Bill Shorten,” (sic) Mr Albanese replied.” As I said before, ‘Not
fit to shovel shit upon a
06/05/2022: The war on childhood – ain’t it the case: “The ancients sacrificed children to the fires of Moloch while progressives sacrifice them to their passion for wokeness”: http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/04/the-lefts-war-on-childhood.html
06/05/2022: Andrews’
deficits – did you take a serious look? He took Napthines’s $17 billlion
surplus to an $18 billion deficit in one year and has since then nearly
doubled it. He has doubled the spend on public servants (again from $17 billion
to $34 billion – easy to see where some savings can be made there folks, and
how to get rid of the deficit!) We now have (from no debt) a whopping $167
billion debt, already $10 billion in interest payments per year – god knows how
much in future as interest rates soar, as they must. We simply no longer have
the money to build new power stations (even though we have not built one since
1983, probably in your entire lifetime) and soon they will all have to close
because they are worn out – and then where will the electricity come from –
from ‘extracting sunbeams from cucumbers’ as Gulliver observed? We need to
build four simultaneously - imagine where the money or the workforce for that
could come from. There will be blackouts for the rest of your lifetime. And you
are maybe thinking of electing an Albanese government which will be worse
–worse even than Ju-Liar’s and dominated by the same ‘Teals’ and Greens as hers
was. This man cannot even name the key points of his darling NDIS scheme – an
area of the budget his last awful Labor government under Ju-Liar thrust on us
out of nothing, but which now consumes more than Defence! If you can’t actually
explain the barest details of your largest spending area of your budget you are
“unfit to shovel shit upon a
06/05/2022: Mass starvation – that’s
what the Greens want (No animals, no fishing or fish farming, ‘organics’, an
end to scientific agriculture…sure that will work out really well): https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/05/green-nightmares.php
06/05/2022: ‘2,000 Mules’ is out.
Surely after seeing this no-one will be able to deny that the
05/05/2022: So you want to skydive from space. Alan Eustace jumped from 40 km up in 2014 – and lived: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/solar-system/a39877685/how-to-skydive-from-space/
05/05/2022: Can you still remember when our (scarce enough) water resources were used to boost agricultural production – and foreign exchange. (That's enough water to irrigate 4,000 acres - 20 square km by - the way): https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/labor_sells_huge_water_licence_to_alleged_ccp_linked_company_after_one_day_of_consideration
05/05/2022: Should you ‘be kind’? “The Nazis, in one of the great ironies of history, believed that what separated the Aryans from other races was their kindness to one another and to animals… While kindness is the slogan, the Trojan Horse of the ideology is the triple strategy of equivocating speech with violence, subjectivism and the weaponising of mental health… This is why statues are being pulled down around the world; why people with what were, until about five years ago, moderate views are called bigots; why supporters of free speech are called Nazis” A very thoughtful essay: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2022/05/some-harsh-words-about-the-cult-of-kindness/
05/05/2022: You can have the crippling debt of the NDIS (up $10 billion every year for the next four according to the budget, ie more than the projected total cost when it was introduced less than 10 years ago) or you can have this – or just maybe there is another way. (‘Everyone’ works). Strangely I remember that in the 1950s when one could have expected that there would have been a larger proportion of ‘invalids’ because of WW2 but it was lower than 3% instead of the greater than 10% it now is – and that’s not to add in the large cohort on ‘unemployment’, ‘supporting parents’ etc: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-is-canada-euthanising-the-poor-
04/05/2022: DIY Tents: In this post I thought I would pull together my ‘adventures’ with making my own tents/shelters over the years. My experience has evolved from utilising simple tarps/ponchos as shelters to creating a variety of tent ‘prototypes’ in Tyvek often followed by a lighter silnylon model (which I then take up the bush to try out).
I have learned a lot in the DIY process which I highly recommend to you. It will save you lots of money and (finally) result in a better shelter than you would otherwise own from a camping store. It is also very likely to be lighter and more functional, as well as being easier to put up and harder to fall down! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/03/diy-tents/
04/05/2022: How many times do we have to prove there is no climate emergency: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/03/a-sense-of-proportion/
04/05/2022:
04/05/2022: Stop worrying about whether your kid is gay – is s/he even human? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/this-is-not-an-onion-headline/
04/05/2022: ‘We’ are at war with
03/05/2022: A Cool Dry Back: The Vaucluse Cool Dry Frame. This looks like such a good idea and may well work. It is a open hexagonal frame intended to sit your pack of from your back an inch or so to allow air flow and (hopefully) prevent that nemesis of all backpackers, a wet back. You will have to pay for a dry back. It is US$97.95 plus shipping (May 2022).
Rather more than the $3 model I tried out here A DIY Dry Back Hiking Pack (which also worked by the way, but it was a bit awkward). I bought some approx 3 mm carbon fibre tubes intending to make a lighter, slightly more functional model but it has not happened yet. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/05/01/a-cool-dry-back/
03/05/2022: Pegasus – scarier than a flying horse: https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/pegasus-spyware/14604/ & https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220502-spain-says-mobile-phones-of-pm-and-defence-minster-infected-by-pegasus-malware
03/05/2022: How prescient Margaret Thatcher was 40 years ago: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/40-years-ago-maggie-thatchers-brilliant-warning-on-lefty-teachers-indoctrinating-children-.html
03/05/2022: It is hard to imagine anyone worse than the Greens, but here they are – and they may well determine who is the Government after the election: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/05/greg-sheridan-brilliant-on-the-threat-from-simons-wealthy-white-women-collective.html
03/05/2022: Just so many mysteries in life: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/ive-had-a-penis-on-my-arm-for-six-years-now-i-finally-feel-like-a-real-man/news-story/083b66b0499a65a6f7c84dc2b79db875
02/05/2022: Wow! How promising is this: https://www.studyfinds.org/plant-virus-may-cure-cancer/
02/05/2022: Yes,
one should ‘blame the victim’. It is a person’s behaviour which determines his/her life. Little else (but
luck). The
Invictus
William Ernest Henley - 1849-1903
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
02/05/2022: Those future food shortages just got a bit more real. You only have to look at what has happened in Sri Lanka to see that ‘organic’ would mean widespread starvation ie approx 30% less food world-wide: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/never-let-crisis-go-waste-samantha-power-celebrates-fertilizer-shortages-will-force-farmers-transition-natural-solutions-video/
Further, Get ready to give up lamb and beef: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/05/01/the-world-has-gone-bonkers/
02/05/2022: Not news really but this Chinese virologist confirms the CCP deliberately released the virus and did so in order to destroy Trump and the American economy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/breaking-bombshell-exclusive-dr-li-meng-yan-says-china-released-covid-19-intentionally-not-accident/
01/05/2022:
01/05/2022: DVOs are issued too
easily without any attempt to see the other side – sometimes they actually
exacerbate the problem. You would think that the party they are being taken
out against would have some chance of defending themselves at the outset and/or
that the allegations being made have some truth in them – but this is not so. I
know about this as we had an unstable neighbour last year issue one against us
because they did not want to pay their share for a dividing fence destroyed by
a sudden flood event – even though it was covered by insurance. The proveably
false statements on it (which were not investigated) could have even resulted
in their being gaoled (if we proceeded to a court trial) but in the end we
negotiated a settlement with them when they realized that and that they would
suffer enormous financial harm if they persisted. The whole process anyway cost
many times more than a new fence would have and delayed the replacement fence
for many months. Also we were denied access to our firearms for
01/05/2022: After Wentworth & etc where are conservatives going to pick up seats to win government? (Perhaps where Labor is losing them in the outer suburbs). Or is it ‘The Deluge’. Anyway, God save us from Penny Wrong and Adam Bandit. NB: “Values aren’t buses … They’re not supposed to get you anywhere. They’re supposed to define who you are” : https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/28/a-farewell-to-sharma/ & https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/wenworth-diary/2022/04/vote-with-one-hand-hold-nose-with-the-other/
30/04/2022: Clever - Printed Circuit Bird Synthesizers: https://laughingsquid.com/printed-circuit-bird-synthesizers/
30/04/2022: President Zelensky Insulted By Biden’s Offer Of Only $33 Billion In Weapons When He Gave The Taliban $86 Billion: https://babylonbee.com/news/ukraine-insulted-by-bidens-offer-of-33-billion-in-weapons-when-he-gave-the-taliban-86-billion
30/04/2022: Love them or hate them, the Libs are good economic managers: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/australias-economic-indicators-amongst-worlds-major-economies.html
30/04/2022: When the government creates a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ you don’t need to think ‘conspiracy’ is just a ‘theory’: https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398907.php
29/04/2022: What a Bogler: I just bought a new trowel which I am very happy with, a Bogler Ultralight Trowel. Mine weighs 13.45 grams on my scales. It is made from (hardened) aircraft-grade aluminium. It is intelligently designed so it does not wear a hole in your hand which is a decided improvement on most such things so that if you ever need to use it to dig for water in a dry river bend or behind the dunes or dig up tree roots for water & etc you may actually not die of thirst (or bleed to death!) before you succeed. Also good for digging for fish bait (worms, beetle larvae, etc.) Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/04/28/what-a-bogler/
29/04/2022: Back to
29/04/2022: Elon Musk’s reflection on
the direction politics has been going –
29/04/2022: Just look at how much
coal
29/04/2022: When I read in the papers Hanson would be preferencing against the Liberals I thought she had lost the plot…then I read her explanation. Time to wake up conservatives and be true to yourselves instead of trying to chase the socialists down their own rat holes : https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/one-nation-preferences-targeting-left-leaning-linos-like-trent-zimmerman-tim-wilson-etc.html
28/04/2022:
28/04/2022: Peter Dutton is right, ‘If you want peace, prepare for war’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/26/igitur-qui-desiderat-pacem-praeparet-bellum/
28/04/2022: I don’t think I will be swapping any of my Landies (with 1000km range plus jerry cans) for 350 km: https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-land-rover
28/04/2022: In praise of Longfellow: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/04/longfellow-wrongfellow/
The Village Blacksmith
Henry
Under
a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy
stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands,
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
Week in, week out, from morn till night,
You can hear his bellows blow;
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,
With measured beat and slow,
Like a sexton ringing the village bell,
When the evening sun is low.
And children coming home from school
Look in at the open door;
They love to see the flaming forge,
And hear the bellows roar,
And catch the burning sparks that fly
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
He goes on Sunday to the church,
And sits among his boys;
He hears the parson pray and preach,
He hears his daughter's voice
Singing in the village choir,
And it makes his heart rejoice.
It sounds to him like her mother's voice
Singing in
He needs must think of her once more,
How in the grave she lies;
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes
A tear out of his eyes.
Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.
Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.
27/04/2022: I would probably prefer a .410 shotgun-cane myself but this might do in a pinch: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BYDC5ZL/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07BYDC5ZL&linkCode=as2&tag=helentag-20&linkId=b539432b77c44daace90749f71b7208d
27/04/2022:
27/04/2022: Understanding the importance of coal: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/rafe-champion-guest-post-tasmania-burning-oil-in-prolonged-wind-drought/
27/04/2022: How long before all of us live this long: https://www.npr.org/2022/04/25/1094630648/the-worlds-oldest-person-japans-kane-tanaka-dies-at-age-119
26/04/2022: After twenty years and
many billions on ‘immortality research’ we are still dying: https://bigthink.com/health/immortality-race-to-live-forever/
26/04/2022: Let’s talk about the immense benefits (to life on earth) of increased CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/23/increased-plant-productivity-the-first-key-benefit-of-atmospheric-co2-enrichment/
26/04/2022: I agree with Rowan Dean, “When asked what people wanted of their leaders at the next election, overwhelmingly the answer was ‘to be left alone’” : https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/23/the-libs-are-only-around-45-socialist-while-labor-is-90/
26/04/2022: “Not a single ‘environmental prediction’ of the last 52 years has come true”. Time we stopped paying any attention to these loonies and just got on with it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/24/earth-days-failed-predictions-of-52-years-ago-the-amazing-environmental-improvements-that-have-occurred-since/
25/04/2022: The CCP certainly does
endorse Albanese (as the Lib ‘attack ads’
25/04/2022: “It turns out that the impact human emissions on the CO₂-concentration is relatively small. In his calculations, only 17 ppm (less than 15%) of the total increase is due to human CO₂. The vast majority of the increase is the result of the increased global temperature” : https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/22/why-is-the-co%e2%82%82-concentration-rising/
25/04/2022: Strange bedfellows:
Putin’s soldiers celebrate conquest of Mariupol shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/putins-soldiers-celebrate-conquest-of-mariupol-shouting-allahu-akbar/
25/04/2022: Fighting above our weight
– remembering the
24/04/2022: Maybe Elon will manage to
bring down the Big Tech conspiracy to rule the world: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/twitter-hiding-dont-forget-dr-shivas-mindblowing-lawsuit-big-tech/
24/04/2022: The dragon is no longer sleeping: “The simple, chilling truth is that the CCP is doing everything in its power – mostly via economics, technology, diplomacy, and the media, not yet via military power – to destroy our way of life”: https://richardsonpost.com/robert-spalding/26730/chinas-rules-of-war/
24/04/2022: As if you didn’t know, “Fossil fuels are making Earth a better and better place by providing uniquely low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people”: https://alexepstein.substack.com/p/earth-day-truth-fossil-fuels-make?r=5c3gj&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
24/04/2022: Tetanus vaccines last at least ten years (and up to 60) but the fake covid ‘vaccine’ does not even last two months (and seems to be even doing a lot of harm, possibly more than the disease): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/tetanus-vaccines-work-so-well-we-may-not-need-the-ten-year-boosters-only-a-30-year-one/
23/04/2022: Important new information for men: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/04/21/bacteria-prostate-cancer/5541650549768/
23/04/2022: Jennifer has a very sound
point about sea level fall here. You only have to open your eyes just about
anywhere to see it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/21/washed-away-a-short-film-about-sea-level-fall/
23/04/2022: Electricity prices have doubled. Without coal (or nuclear) we may not be able to afford electricity in the future. These green crazies pushing this insane agenda must be stopped. Build new baseload now: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/australian-electricity-price-doubles-ceo-explains-prices-up-due-to-lack-of-coal-power/
23/04/2022: Viv Forbes is totally right – we must win the war against the ‘green slime’ now or be lost forever: https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/26698/its-time-for-australia-to-vote-for-change/
Just a ‘for example’: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/cost_of_net_zero_500_000_jobs_and_a_massive_hit_to_the_economy
22/04/2022: Sounds very promising: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-04-tumors-partially-dont.html
22/04/2022: You don’t say? So, no climate crisis then: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/20/2021-state-of-the-climate-report-empirical-observations-show-no-sign-of-climate-crisis-snow-cover-stable-sea-ice-levels-recovering-no-change-in-storm-activity/
Even Greta agrees: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/20/a-puppet-slip-of-the-tongue-did-she-really-just-say-that-monday-mirthiness/
22/04/2022: I find this quite
sickening – a harbinger of the West moving to adopt
22/04/2022: In
20/04/2022: I have long noticed that the left seems to want a return to some ‘golden’ past (such as medieval times - or anyway pre-industrial). This Rouseauean ‘noble savage’ nonsense is really quite dangerous. The Agrarian Revolution, industrialization and capitalism has issued in an era of incomparable benefits to mankind: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/04/the_medieval_era_is_suddenly_calling_out_to_leftists.html
20/04/2022:
20/04/2022: Thank goodness someone (Katherine Deves) is willing to stand against transgender nonsense. (and well said Jacinta Price). “Does anyone actually believe that men change into women and women into men who can give birth, that the Earth is burning, the seas are rising, and we’ll all perish unless we cover our faces with strips of cotton?” (David Mamet in American Occupation): https://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/deserve-to-have-a-voice-controversial-liberal-party-candidate-katherine-deves-finds-support/news-story/06db84bb658225363a96a368fa520939
19/04/2022: Nice bit of gear. I see some civilian uses for them too: https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2022/04/15/pentagon-to-build-nuclear-microreactor-to-power-far-flung-bases/
19/04/2022: The truth is hard to take
- “
19/04/2022: Shanghai again. Something
very strange is happening here. The Cantonese have always been the soft
underbelly of the communist regime. Maybe that’s what’s going on - a
19/04/2022: George Washington: ‘Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master…Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth…The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments…The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves…’
18/04/2022: Ah Bess, what a great lady you are: “In contrast to the current crop of pygmies we have as world leaders, she is the last remaining island of permanence and stability in our age. She will leave a yawning chasm when she is gone”: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/miranda-devine-queen-elizabeth-ii-a-giant-among-world-leaders/news-story/dff90a02372dc4ccf43848cccafe4030
18/04/2022: Obviously not farm kids: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/15/children-farm-animal-same-as-pets/8071650031160/
18/04/2022: Just saying, but I suspect castration (or death) would work better as a deterrent (and be a fairer punishment): https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18287591/child-rapists-escape-punishment-apologise/
18/04/2022: When Age Poll discovers you are a dead duck: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/ninesmhage-poll-finds-voters-have-woken-up-to-therapeutic-albanese-the-hollow-man.html
17/04/2022: New tricks in electronics: https://scitechdaily.com/the-future-of-electronics-new-fermi-arcs-discovered/
17/04/2022:
17/04/2022: I want my country back too. For example, our feed and grain store in Morwell (MacRoberts - a third generation business which heretofore had not missed a single day) has been closed for weeks because of a completely spurious useless onerous vaccine mandate: https://spectator.com.au/2022/04/i-want-my-country-back/
17/04/2022: Too true: Peta Credlin's great expose on Anthony Albanese: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/peta-credlins-great-expose-on-anthony-albanese.html
16/04/2022: Watch out – carnivorous horses: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/carnivorous-horses-0016638
16/04/2022: Yes, time to take cobalt out of lithium batteries: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/13/cobalt-free-lithium-ion-auto-batteries/1731649255014/
16/04/2022: Modelling vs reality: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/15/roaring-and-screaming/
16/04/2022: So, not enough that the cops let the protesters in but they were led in by undercover Feds: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/14/yet-another-conspiracy-theory-comes-true-at-least-20-feds-embedded-at-capitol-on-jan-6-n1589815
15/04/2022: Taking a balloon ride to the edge of space. Same view – much more affordable: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/12/space-perspective-unveils-spaceship-neptune/4201649795426/
15/04/2022: “You can put lipstick on
a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig.” Besides, Albo could not lie
straight in bed. Unless Labor can come up with something/someone better
than this before May 21 they will spend another three years in opposition (but
God save us from Penny Wong!): https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/each_way_albo_s_top_ten_political_each_way_bets
15/04/2022: Trust the expert: https://www.rebelnews.com/leading_australian_cardiologist_slams_push_for_mrna_vaccines
15/04/2022: The green energy transition which will not work. Already we have backup household generator/s here at Jeeralang Junction because we regularly lose power (about once a week for some time, and at least once a year for days!) This has been brought about because of the failure to replace Hazelwood with reliable base load generation (coal/nuclear – there is currently no other alternative). The situation will get worse as other coal generators close (Liddell, Yallourn etc). Then we will have brown-outs and blackouts everywhere very, very often. This situation will continue for years as it takes years to build base load generators even after the decision has been made – if it is ever made. The lunatics have been and still are running the asylum. This has to stop: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/guest-post-by-rafe-champion-energy-security-on-the-edge-of-a-cliff/
14/04/2022: Albanese – so smart: “Solar panels on the roof charging your vehicle overnight.” Thank goodness the Labor Party has a leader as useless as this guy – else they might have some chance of winning. Even that old Leftie Tom Uren described him as a ‘young Trot’ in his autobiography. Look, Albanese is an unreconstructed commie whatever ‘conservative’ disguises he may try to put on. Worse than that (even) is that he is clearly an idiot who struggles to talk: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2021/04/therapeutic-albaneses-solar-panels-charging-the-electric-car-overnight.html
14/04/2022: What a great idea – and to think, once I didn’t believe in censorship: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dont-say-gay-florida-raise-kids-homosexual_n_6245acc7e4b03516d42d0400
14/04/2022: I suspect these 1,000 dead athletes (including Shane Warne) are only the tip of the iceberg – what we don’t know (for sure - yet) is whether ‘the cure is worse than the complaint’. Hopefully it is not, but remember this, ‘Hope’ was the last of the evils to be released from Pandora’s box: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/the-year-of-collapsing-athletes-890-athletes-collapse-or-die-and-counting/
14/04/2022: Social ‘experiments’ have
real-world consequences. Vote for the Left and you will get economic chaos
(as the figures out from the
13/04/2022: Sustainable nuclear fusion edges closer and closer: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-shatter-record-for-the-amount-of-energy-produced-during-a-controlled-sustained-fusion-reaction/
13/04/2022: Putin’s energy policy and
strategy over the last 20 years makes him look a lot smarter than most of NATO:
https://www.commentary.org/articles/james-meigs/germany-russia-energy/
13/04/2022: The Bee is right – this trans evil must end: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-groomer-9-things-to-look-for
13/04/2022: 536 AD: Something like this can happen again any day and no amount of ‘global warming’ hype or hysteria will have any effect on it whatever – imagine across China alone 80% of the population died: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/climate-cataclysm-001360?fbclid=IwAR3L-CxaiHq4Pji3gD7TK5Sx1-HM0xGywdoIIy-xvSU784YBozVPd_t8NPE
12/04/2022: It is not getting warmer stupid. It has not been for thousands of years. This was always a commie lie. Let’s all move on with our lives, build some new power stations, buy an SUV and an aircon and have a nice holiday somewhere via jet travel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/11/new-study-arctic-was-much-warmer-6000-years-ago-90-of-glaciers-ice-caps-smaller-than-present-or-absent/
12/04/2022: The Touch of Contagion.
One thing I really liked about ‘the pandemic’ was the way people stopped
touching you. I have always been stand-offish from when I was a child, so this
suited me just fine. I value my personal space and am very choosy about who is
welcome in it. My wife of 50 years for example. My (grown up) children on
special occasions. Pretty much no-one else. I really valued not having to shake
hands. I have always hated that ‘trial of strength’ thing which so many men
(particularly) want to turn it into, and my increasing finger (and thumb)
arthritis has made it mostly a painful and unpleasant custom. The faux hugging
which (what?) morphed out of English soccer/gay culture (I don’t know) I have
always found utterly repellent. I rarely hug (anyone) so why I should want to
hug (pretty much) total strangers or simply acquaintances (when I would pretty
much
12/04/2022: Steve Kates is quite right – if we want to throw our country away we should elect the (pro Chinese) communist Albanese who will flood the nation with illegal immigrants and so weaken our defence we will soon not have a country at all (after he has wrecked it some more with other crazy leftie/welfare & etc policies): https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/04/11/are-australians-stupid-enough-to-elect-our-own-version-of-joe-biden/
12/04/2022: There has
never been so much media, it appears to be so much more live and immediate than
in the past, but the Left’s ‘march through the institutions’ has destroyed its
credibility, making it almost worthless – a vehicle which could have been so
transformational in human betterment lies in the gutter. The average
(conservative) citizen’s trust of the media is unlikely to be very different
from what we see in the
11/04/2022: On Peter Walsh’s Death on this day in 2015: He was Finance Minister in the Hawke Government. He was possibly the last economically literate Labor leader. Comparing him to the commie rabble running the party now evokes the cry, ‘Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.’(Dante)‘Walsh was not selective in his hatred of rent-seekers and protectionists: He despised trade union leaders as much as he despised farm and business leaders for their special interest pleading. And he was just as withering in his critiques of the environmental movement’s anti-growth agenda….He abhorred the rising influence of the environmental movement on the Labor Party and wrote that “since the 1980s Australian Labor Party policy has been incrementally hijacked by well-heeled, self-indulgent, morally vain and would-be authoritarian activists whom the media often describes as the intelligentsia”.’ From his obit in the Australian.
11/04/2022: E-ink displays for your phone are just around the corner promising huge improvements in battery life: https://newatlas.com/electronics/e-ink-kaleido-3-epaper/
11/04/2022: Maybe not so bad after all - Scientists Finally Have Clues About What We See When We Die: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a39454993/dying-brain-waves/
11/04/2022: The 1911 9mm is a classic gun for self-defence – why can’t we all own one here in Oz: https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/dear-9-mm-1911-i-you/
11/04/2022: One thing Putin did right: https://www.popsci.com/space/astronaut-mark-vande-hei-russian-soyuz-landing/
10/04/2022: Mysteries of aluminium foil: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/why-aluminum-foil-has-a-shiny-and-a-dull-side/ar-AAKizNQ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3a604cdb7bb2495fb21b9344e709bb69
10/04/2022: Private space travel (at US$55 million a ticket). I guess I won’t be going soon: https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2022/04/08/spacex-axiom-private-astronaut-international-space-station/5351649362926/
10/04/2022: She’ll be right mate: In
2021 coral cover, snow cover, forest cover, rainfall and river inflows
increased: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/in_2021_coral_cover_snow_cover_forest_cover_rainfall_and_river_inflows_increased
10/04/2022: We have needed to implement something like this in Oz for nearly fifty years. Let’s do it now: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2022/04/how-the-uk-combats-activism-in-the-classroom/
See Also: Why Australian Teachers Preach Green Rubbish: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2022/04/why-australian-teachers-can-preach-green-rubbish/
09/04/2022: This could be the biggest (and smallest) discovery of the C21st: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-60993523
09/04/2022: Aussies are not convinced by climate alarmism, so let’s ditch it: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/no_surprise_72_of_aussies_say_cheap_reliable_power_is_more_important_than_net_zero
09/04/2022:
09/04/2022: Probably illegal even to
say so but long since time we recriminalised non-hetero sexuality in public –
as well as its advocacy and support. This woke agenda has already done enormous
damage to society (as I long predicted it would). This evil cant be allowed to
continue to destroy our children and our society any
08/04/2022: Another threat to diesel supplies – this will have vast downstream effects if it plays out: https://richardsonpost.com/tyler-durden/26229/gas-stations-will-run-dry-catastrophic-scenario-for-diesel-emerging-according-to-worlds-biggest-energy-traders/
08/04/2022: Everything about the pandemic was BS but we just had to destroy our economy, our future prosperity, our freedom – you name it – and it should never end: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/unvaxxed-australians-cant-leave-the-country-because-of-a-who-treaty-were-protecting-the-world/
08/04/2022: Who knows what the truth
is about what is happening in the
08/04/2022: Folks have been in gaol for this for well over a year but now the first accused is acquitted because police invited the invaders into the Capitol building: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/07/first-january-6-defendant-acquitted-n1587832
07/04/2022: Just as global warming
goes away in
07/04/2022: Yes there were war crimes, but why were there: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2022/04/05/there-were-war-crimes-in-bucha-whether-you-choose-to-believe-it-or-not-n1587045
07/04/2022: What possible reason could there be any more for this draconian restriction. Surely our nation is not a prison colony any more: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/04/unvaccinated-australians-cant-leave-australia-unless-they-escape-is-that-swim-paddle-or-dingy/
07/04/2022: What’s happening in
06/04/2022: Ultralight Windscreen or Chimney Closure: This is so far a 'proof of concept but it will soon be a new model of my diy ultralight roll-up titanium stove/windscreen and may be incorporated into sections of chimney for my ultralight tent stove as it will be so much easier to roll up - and there is nothing to get lost. We will see.
I will make the tags longer than this. I stupidly cut it off. I also needed to allow another 1/2" of overlap. You can cut the slot with the super-scissors/snip they sell everywhere after you have drilled two 1/8" holes the correct distance apart. I needed to be a bit more careful about this.
Nonetheless I am very pleased with the idea. it is simple yet strong. It would work fine in .05mm foil which is all you would need for a windscreen alone and would make a pot screen less than 10 grams weight.
I think for my 4" high hobo stove three of these tag and slot joiners will make a very solid connection. I can add additional slots so that the stove can fit outside the pot or inside the pot.
A little experimentation has shown me that the .1mm foil is more than strong enough to support the weight of a 2 litre pot full of water. I use an 1100 ml pot. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/04/05/ultralight-windscreen-or-chimney-closure/
06/04/2022: Clearly the Libs are way
ahead on Defence – the big one that really matters (watch
06/04/2022: “With enough demographic change, it is possible for new countries to take the place of old ones, and new countries require new histories.” https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/multiculturalism_and_history.html
06/04/2022: ‘Everyone’ is upset about the ‘end of democracy’ in Ukraine but let the real destruction of democracy in the 2020 US election just slip by – but there is vast evidence of a stolen election, millions of votes: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/719657/
06/04/2022: 40 years of satellite records show the average temperature almost never varies by more than half a degree, usually by no more than one tenth of a degree – clearly the earth has a thermostat,: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/04/03/uah-global-temperature-update-for-march-2022-0-15-deg-c/
05/04/2022: It’s the sun stupid: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/27/atmospheric-fingerprint/
05/04/2022: You would hope so anyway:
https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/03/a-victim-too-far-how-transgenders-will-bring-down-the-lefty-marxists-who-want-to-destroy-america-n1586542
Anyway better that than this: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/04/02/california-city-approves-program-to-give-trans-non-binary-residents-guaranteed-income-n1586462
05/04/2022: Interesting read - The war on gold: https://richardsonpost.com/harryrichardson/26405/putins-other-war/
05/04/2022: Maybe we just don’t understand Putin’s strategy – an alternative view: http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2022/03/an-unconventional-analysis-of-putins.html
04/04/2022: Some hope this morning
that common sense will prevail: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/hungarians-vote-orbans-12-year-rule-tight-ballot-overshadowed-by-ukraine-war-2022-04-03/
04/04/2022: Governments (everywhere –
except perhaps
04/04/2022: “But despite his past as a left-wing warrior, the Albanese opposition is playing the small target game (and getting away with it) by “me-too-ing” everything, from nuclear submarines to tax cuts.” – just like Kevin Rudd did too, if you remember. But please remember how, once he was in power all that changed, then morphed into Gillard and the Greens, the whole silly season mess! Let’s vote conservative, then Liberal second with the Left very far down the ticket: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/federal-election/federal-election-2022-peta-credlins-sky-doco-explores-how-the-campaign-battle-will-unfold/news-story/842864638dcb6054520e3c3a25fdf92d
Note for example these two (same day)
‘news items’. Albanese wishing us ‘Happy Ramadan’ – thanks a lot for that: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/04/therapeutic-albanese-wishing-you-all-a-happy-ramadan.html
contrasted with Tony Abbott reflecting on the real achievement and importance
of (yet another) free trade agreement (none of which would ever have happened
under Labor) this time with
04/04/2022: Our greatest PM on the
way forward in the
03/04/2022: I could add a few dot
points to this agenda (to save
03/04/2022: Our best PM on war:
“We have to make the war that’s unthinkable to us for moral reasons,
unthinkable to them for prudential reasons. We who shrink from war because it’s
morally wrong have to make others shrink from war because they’d likely lose”
(delivered three days before the invasion of
03/04/2022: Bushfire management – how the ‘experts’ are so often wrong – and with what disastrous results. The people tasked with protecting our crown lands are effectively destroying them: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/03/academic-expertise-so-thats-what-its-called/
03/04/2022: Scary stuff – our
‘education system at work, “A survey
commissioned by the IPA published last week asked 1000 people “if
Forty six per cent said they would stay and fight, 28 per cent said they would leave the country and 26 per cent were unsure. Just 32 per cent of those aged 18-24 said they would stay and fight and 40 per cent said they would leave the country, 28 per cent said they were unsure.
Slightly more (35 per cent) of those aged 25-34 said they would stay and
fight while 38 per cent said they would leave the country, 27 per cent were
unsure. A clear majority in those age groups therefore indicated they would
either run or were undecided about defending
02/04/2022: Announcement: Liberal
Fact-Checkers Have Ruined April Fools' Day – and a lot else besides. Just
about every day the news headlines sound like April Fools Day: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/04/01/announcement-liberal-fact-checkers-have-ruined-april-fools-day-n1586136
02/04/2022: Rat Colony Beneath D.C.
Disgusted To
02/04/2022: Le Pen may get over the
line this time – that would be an early swallow: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220329-french-far-right-leader-le-pen-closing-gap-on-macron-polls
02/04/2022: A little war in the
01/04/2022: Ultralight Survival Made Easy: I decided here to update the post The Complete Survival Guide (which you should still read) as it had become a little out-of-date in the three years since I wrote it and I had since written many other useful pieces of advice which I could incorporate in a new post, which this is.
I might have also called it, ‘I tell you we’ll astonish the new chums to see how we travel the land’ after the refrain from the old bush song The Springtime it Brings on the Shearing. (I also mentioned this song in the post Johnny Cakes – which you should try).
And it is a good point because these itinerant C19th bush workers with their swags (or blueys) were wonderful experts at ultralight journeying over the vast distances of the Australian outback which would put to shame any of our current generation. Suppose you wanted to make your own.
I remember reading ‘The Cattle King’ by Ion Idriess when I was a youngster about our great Aussie icon Sidney Kidman – and you should too. You can buy it from Amazon from $8.99. It is just quite wonderful. I believe Nicole is a remote descendant. I think Gina now owns much of the remaining Kidman ’empire’ – another wonderful ‘self-made Aussie hero, so it remains in Australian hands.
Even as an old man (like me) he would regularly leave Adelaide with just his saddle horse, pack horse and his cattle dog and within a few short weeks have crossed the entire continent through the trackless (often waterless) wilderness to the Gulf of Carpentaria – all by himself, and did so many, many times. Old hands still tell of how he would just appear in the darkness sitting by their campfire as they yarned over the billy. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/29/ultralight-survival-made-easy/
01/04/2022: Why you should not try to rob a gun store: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/security-camera-captures-gun-store-owner-opening-fire-on-two-thieves-who-came-in-shooting-video/
01/04/2022: Heinlein’s crazy years – the
01/04/2022: A Missing Link - I have often wondered at some similarities of ideas amongst the Pre-Socratics and both Buddhism and Confucianism. No we learn that there was indeed intellectual contact at the time (c250 BC): https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/greek-buddhism-0016584
01/04/2022: What is truth? I don’t know Scott, you described Zelensky who came to power in a coup in 2014 and has recently outlawed opposition parties as a ‘beacon of democracy’ but figures seem to show what the Russian people are 80% behind Vlad Putin: https://extra.cw/putins-popularity-up-since-start-of-ukraine-conflict-poll/
31/03/2022: Hunting Tales: You will find many, many posts in this blog which mention hunting (particularly sambar deer hunting which has been a passion of mine for much of my adult life) but there are many more which are relevant to the art and skill of hunting.
I have been a hunter since I could walk over 70 years ago now as were several generations of my family before me. Hunting is a great good. It has been valued as such by most of the people who have ever lived for over a million years now. You can ‘deconstruct ‘ values all you like – it would be mighty strange indeed if they were wrong!
Some other posts which you might explore which are relevant to hunting are my many posts about woodslore and survival, my posts about DIY gear, some of my canoeing posts…often other posts contain anecdotes about hunting or relevant advice.
These posts will not be your ‘conventional’ hunting yarns with a dead critter at the end. While that might be the ‘end’ of hunting. It is only a small part of this great sport. They will very often be something quit different from what you are used to, but I hope you enjoy them. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/28/hunting-tales/
31/03/2022: Energy from nothing – what we have long thought impossible has apparently been done NB: his may one day work for your phone but it is unlikely to ever be grid scale. However, it does reveal that nature still has many surprises in wait for us: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/scientists-build-circuit-that-generates-clean-limitless-power-from-graphene
31/03/2022: “The IPCC statement that “The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible” appears to be true: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/28/the-100000-year-problem-and-earths-chaotic-non-linear-climate/
In a similar vein, the climate past is far from settled: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/30/climate-past-far-from-settled-7-major-temperature-reconstructions-find-no-agreement/
31/03/2022: “Of the 32 (kindergarten) students I teach 20 of them have come out as LGBTQIA and have come out to me” – I seriously question the ‘right’ of teachers to discuss such private (and adult) issues with their students. I think I would be more in favour of removing such teachers from the classroom altogether. Surely there is no sane society where such matters are core curriculum: http://ace.mu.nu/archives/398431.php
31/03/2022: My sentiments exactly - Mad, bad and dangerous to vote for, “Put simply, when ideologues demand power but cannot maintain it politically because they are cruel ideologues that destroy what they touch, expect more of their insanity to follow.”: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/29/mad-bad-and-dangerous-to-vote-for/
30/03/2022: DIY $4 & 20 Gram Roll-Up Titanium Stove: I have just completed making this titanium version of my roll-up hobo stove (as threatened here) and the carbon fibre cosy to go with it. I started with a 500 mm by 100 mm piece of titanium sourced from Aliexpress for less than US4. As stated in my earlier post You can buy the titanium foil to make the 20 gram one from Aliexpress for A$3.87 delivered. I have marked off the circle/hexagon for the fire door here. Note the ‘V’ at the bottom and top so it will roll up and fit in the billy. The circle is 2 1/2″ (62mm) in diameter. The door is 1/2″ from the bottom. You can build it with just a pair of craft scissors, a drill and a pop riveter. I use stainless steel rivets so they will not melt. Here it is complete. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/28/diy-4-20-gram-roll-up-titanium-stove/
30/03/2022: The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife – we will be hearing more about this in the future depending on how much info is suppressed: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2020/08/ariel-sabar-what-happened-to-the-gospel-of-jesus-wife/615160/ As in https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/03/the-scandals-of-the-dead-sea-scrolls/ So much we still don’t know about the origins of ‘the world’s greatest religion’ and about the historicity (or otherwise) of Jesus himself.
30/03/2022: You would have to be nuts
if you think there isn’t a ‘
30/03/2022: Is
Meanwhile, sanctions that work? https://instapundit.com/511785/
30/03/2022: When the Japanese arrived
in the Solomons (during WW2)
29/03/2022: Other Uses for a Garbage Bag: Many of you no doubt use a trash bag as a liner for your pack – which is a great use for them. As a spare ultralight raincoat is another. Still another is re-purposing one as a pad inflator (bag). I almost never carry the inflator bag (because of the weight which came with my sleeping bag, preferring to dry it out properly when I get home and taking the chance that mould etc will shorten its life – but I am incurable.
You may prefer to make yourself a less than one ounce bag inflator with a trash bag and a bottle cap. You can use an ordinary drink bottle cap or if you hunt around you will find an even lighter alternative. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/other-uses-for-a-garbage-bag/
29/03/2022: Mighty Oaks: A lot of
PC here (as compared with a single C19th French shepherd who famously
reforested tens of thousands of acres with oaks in
29/03/2022: If the mRNA ‘vaccines’
were
Surely this is proof that it is weakening their immune systems too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/latest-cdc-data-shows-vaccinated-children-aged-5-11-now-likely-catch-covid-unvaccinated-peers/
No doubt Clive is right (ie he would
have died). How many other less fortunate folk have
29/03/2022: Has to be a good news
story, surely? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/new-zealand-massey-universitys-queer-fat-studies-lecturer-fatlicious-feminist-dies-suddenly-sleep-42/
29/03/2022: Absolutely right Alan Moran, You can't save the world with Net Zero. Such green fantasies will have exactly the opposite effect: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/03/you-cant-save-the-world-with-net-zero/
70% of
28/03/2022: Ultralight Ratchet Tie Down: Here’s a handy little gadget I picked up from Bunnings yesterday for A$14 per pair (Mar 2022)
Each 6′ (1.8 metre) tie down weighs 44 grams. Each metal hook seems to weigh about 10 grams whilst the plastic ratchet itself weighs only 14 grams so that if you wanted to dispense with the hooks for weight you could. You could also substitute a different length/weight of 3 mm cord if you wanted a device which was longer/shorter. I can envisage numerous uses for such a device including a secure means of attaching your pack to your pack raft or hauling your shower into the air from a branch.
They also come in 2.4 metre lengths. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/ultralight-ratchet-tie-down/
28/03/2022:
28/03/2022: Fortunately other things
have eclipsed the ‘climate strike’ but I have to agree with the author about the
quite dreadful manipulation and corruption of the children involved: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/27/lord-of-the-flies/
28/03/2022: An interesting anniversary I missed a couple of days back. Reminiscent of events in that part of the world today? https://www.ancientpages.com/2017/03/24/on-this-day-in-history-turco-mongol-emperor-timur-sacks-damascus-on-mar-24-1401/?fbclid=IwAR04ma_pgtFjmZXvFFh6VL0Xzm9tWbuAHjNO_I77Zhk6st8nFEarlstbwrA
28/03/2022: 3,000+ Years! You just
can’t challenge
27/03/2022: Responsible Sambar Deer Hunting: As I recover from my total knee replacement operation (five weeks now -and going well so far, thank you), every morning my attention is drawn to this sight outside my kitchen window. I know as a responsible farmer I should not allow this guy even to exist, but no-one is perfect - and it is so cute and will soon succumb to some awful disease anyway. (The blackberry also craves attention).
NB If you took a second or two to see the rabbit (I would have seen it instantly) it is because you are not ‘looking through’ but ‘looking at’. This is the most important hunting skill, and the first you must master.
He first cleans himself diligently then lies in the sun on his tummy like that for over an hour every morning on a little platform he has constructed under a shrub on the slope behind the house. This is a well-established habit. All creatures fall into a pattern of such habits - even human beings. A moment's refection of your daily routines will cause you to admit that you are no different in this than your wild brethren. The successful hunter can utilise careful observation and such recurring habits to ensure success in harvesting nature's annual bounty for the table.
And that is what responsible hunting is - it is not pest management. Its goal is not the eradication of some undesirable feral species but the careful nurture and management of a noble creature and desirable food source. Just as a farmer (such as me) manages his flocks to ensure that they increase and multiply each year (and are healthy and content) to the maximum extent of the available food source so that in autumn when that food supply begins to decline they will be sent off to market for the benefit of other people's tables rather than slowly starve as the lean times of winter hit. This is nature's cycle.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/27/responsible-sambar-deer-hunting/
27/03/2022: Golden Earrings (1947) –
what a ripper of a film. Ray Milland’s segue of facial expressions on
seeing the earrings in the first minutes of the film is one of the greatest
acting feats of the cinema: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Earrings
PS It is available on
27/03/2022: A New Birth Control Pill for Men. This could be interesting – but will women accept that you have taken it? https://scitechdaily.com/new-male-birth-control-pill-effectively-prevents-pregnancy-without-side-effects/
27/03/2022: Now seems clear the
Bidens (father and son – 10% for ‘The Big Guy’ if you remember) actually funded
the biolabs in the
Also note How the ‘Trump Won’ Movement Will Be Vindicated: https://amgreatness.com/2022/03/25/how-the-trump-won-movement-will-be-vindicated/
27/03/2022: Of course I think they
are useless bird and bat chomping monsters which will never produce a net watt
of electricity but absurd isn’t it? We lived nearly half our lives within
5km of the (late - alas) beautiful
27/03/2022: You would think the
Government and the IPCC would have been on top of data like this (as with
similar unreconstructed thermometer records going back to the C17th some places
– and other historical data, some much older), but they are captive to a
climate change scenario and myth so it is up to citizens to correct the record.
You will note that the record wet and dry years are now pushed back to the
1850s. I have no doubt that the same thing would happen with temperature
records if earlier records were counted in. We can see this already eg in the
Cape Otway Vic historical data and in the earliest
26/03/2022: Visual Hiking Oxymoron- please don't make these bizarre ankle
breaking wildfire causing stone
26/03/2022: Are you a woman – twelve signs to look for: https://babylonbee.com/news/are-you-a-woman-12-signs-to-look-for
If only it wasn’t so sinister: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2022/03/25/think-you-know-what-a-woman-is-usa-today-says-science-should-make-you-think-again-n1584248
26/03/2022: Aside from the ‘mean girls’ fiasco and Albo’s massage parlor antics the Labor Party has other chickens which have still to come home to roost: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/kathy-sherriff-announces-shes-launched-a-civil-action-against-bill-shorten-alleging-rape.html
26/03/2022: Now even the New York Times admits that the Bidens are crooks surely their demise is imminent. This dreadful fake ‘Presidency’ will not last beyond the mid-terms (in November). (I include the awful Kamala Harris in this). Democracy may even re-emerge in the ‘Land of the Free’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/america-is-finding-out-the-presidents-son-cheated-the-media-buried-it-the-fbi-hid-it/
26/03/2022: Once you go to the ‘real science’ you can trust it. Understanding it is more difficult! However, in this example, “IPCC’s goal (aside from frightening the public) is to determine the ECS, the Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, which is the surface temperature rise (∆Tsurf) due to a doubling of CO2 concentration. They are free to speculate, of course, but they are intellectually obligated to see whether their ECS makes sense. All they have to do is to apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their predicted temperature rise.
If they do so, they will find out that 16.4 W/m2 (for a 3oC) rise in radiative flux is violently in contradiction to the 3.71 W/m2 of “radiative forcing” that their models say causes that 3oC temperature rise. They are free to come up with an explanation, but they first have to apply the Stefan-Boltzmann law to their ECS. Maybe in a few more decades, IPCC will make this discovery.” One thing is certain: ‘The Science’ certainly seems to cause mass hysteria: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/24/basic-climate-physics-10/
25/03/2022: NIKE Releases New Women's Swimsuit With Extra Space For Male Genitalia: https://babylonbee.com/news/nike-releases-new-womens-swimsuit-with-extra-space-for-male-genitalia
25/03/2022: This Romanian MP is (unfortunately) so right. You can’t be a great light for democracy when you threw it all away over covid. Much of the West’s reaction to Putin is of this nature. You have a very short memory if you can’t recall Dictator Dan’s treatment of our citizens and ‘freedoms’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/trudeau-roasted-as-a-dictator-in-the-eu-we-watched-you-trample-women-with-horses/
25/03/2022: An outstanding family – putting your money where your mouth is: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ivanka-trump-meals-ukrainian-refugees
25/03/2022: It appears as if for one
generation at least, the covid mandate was worse than the
I don’t know what to make of this message I received from a friend. It would be truly horrifying if true, but there is a lot of this stuff out there: https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=1487568149&attachment_id=708801196780080&message_id=mid.%24cAABa89gvkI-F1qKixF_pV1ZJQJJ9
24/03/2022: Now two advantages of Antabuse: you don’t get blind or blind drunk: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-antabuse-revive-vision-people-disorders.html
24/03/2022: A very interesting new drug – good news for the elderly: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-03-oral-drug-death-covid-mice.html
24/03/2022: Giving a big cheer to the Daily Wire: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/cancelling-cancel-culture-when-being-anti-woke-is-not-a-secret-but-a-selling-point/
24/03/2022: No way to confirm this story, but hubris and over-reach are the bare bones of tragedy: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10641565/Russian-execution-squads-orders-kill-defectors-writes-IAN-BIRRELL.html
24/03/2022: Vlad ‘fueled’ the greens’
war on fracking (even though just about everywhere is sitting on a
virtually infinite supply of cheap gas). They are gullible fools after all,
eager to take anyone’s money so they can destroy ‘capitalism’: https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/putins-fake-fracking-news/
& https://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/frack-to-the-future/
Who is in charge of our governments?
23/03/2022: How Randomized Control Trials really work: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/rct-study-shows-parachutes-make-no-difference-when-jumping-from-aircraft/
23/03/2022: 5,000 exo-planets so far –
how many more once James Web becomes
fully functional? Still only the tip of the iceberg but what is becoming
clear is that planetary systems (around solar masses – and elsewhere even) is
the norm. It would be hard to imagine that life has not arisen on some of them
and that
23/03/2022: Proof: All for nothing – no change in human CO2 enmissions will make the slightest difference to the climate: “Anthropogenic CO2 is virtually constant compared to the seasonal variations of the natural sources and sinks. The monthly anthropogenic flux change is much smaller than the uncertainty in the net global monthly flux changes. Therefore, there is no support for the claims about anthropogenic CO2 driving the annual changes. The seasonal natural source fluxes swamp the anthropogenic sources. Eliminating anthropogenic CO2 would have a negligible impact on annual increases, which is why the pandemic lockdowns had an imperceptible effect on the global atmospheric concentrations. I do not expect even draconian reductions in anthropogenic CO2 to have the kind of results claimed to justify eliminating fossil fuel use. The annual growth in CO2 is a result of increasing natural sources that is not compensated by commensurate increases in sinks.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/22/anthropogenic-co2-and-the-expected-results-from-eliminating-it/
23/03/2022: Good Lord – the
Ukrainians are castrating captured Russian soldiers, but they are ‘the good
guys’? That’s about as bad as it gets. When did you last hear of prisoners
of war treated thus? As I have said before I’m not about to throw away any of
my lives fighting for either side in this war, however if you really expect
‘right’ to be on your side you should perhaps make a little more effort to
distinguish yourself eg as being pro democracy (instead of outlawing all
opposition parties - some with 43 member in Parliament and also fighting the
Russians) as Zelensky has just done. One should note that he came to power in
2014 in a coup ousting the elected government and has failed to have ‘free and
fair’ elections since (particularly in the ‘disputed’ territories). Then there
is the issue of his secret NATO bases, the Biolabs, and work being conducted on
developing nuclear weapons – all these things clearly aimed at making an attack
on Russia in the future (under the aegis of Nato etc). At present I see
Zelensky as somewhat of a Macbeth figure willing to see his country destroyed
(less he be) or ‘wish the estate o' the world were now undone’ as Macbeth says.
Vlad is certainly not a good guy’ either and ought not be visiting the horror
we see daily on the people of
22/03/2022: Adventures in
22/03/2022: A great essay by Keith Windschuttle on the causes of war: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/03/the-causes-of-war/
No, I am not generally in favour of war but it would be nice to think that one’s ‘own side’ were the ‘good guys’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/03/21/what-was-the-2014-euromaidan-coup-in-ukraine-and-why-does-it-matter/
22/03/2022: The (‘Liberal’) loss in
SA surely gives a clear lesson that you do not defeat socialists by aping them
(as
22/03/2022: Can Civilisation Be
Saved? Substitute for the subject term ‘The West’, ‘
21/03/2022: “I have no reason to believe that he who would take away my liberty would not when he had me in his power take away everything else,” John Locke.
21/03/2022: What’s The Long Game Behind Fat Pride? I don’t know whether to join this movement or go on a crash diet: https://www.iwf.org/2022/03/17/whats-the-long-game-behind-fat-pride/
21/03/2022:
21/03/2022: Meanwhile this is very like the capitalists selling the communists the rope with which to hang them(selves): https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/03/19/germany-france-other-eu-members-sold-huge-stocks-of-arms-to-russia-before-invasion-despite-embargo/
Mind you that great ‘democrat’
Zelensky has now decided to institute a one party state in the
21/03/2022: I will extinguish these folks properly if they come to let my tyres down – so over holier than thou bullies and save the world cranks who have no idea how the world actually works. As an example also the anti duck hunting brigade who are so out of touch with the natural world they refuse to understand that seasonal breeding each year creates a surplus of creatures which must be humanely harvested or else they starve the following winter when there is not enough food to sustain them. Who would have thought anti-theft valve locks would be a thing? Who steals air? Well, these people just by breathing. If only we could charge them for it there would soon be many fewer of them (as welfare may not necessarily provide free air – at least not if I was in charge): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/climate-vandals-are-coming-to-let-down-your-suv-tyres-if-only-they-had-evidence-to-persuade-you-instead/
20/03/2022: Of Course We’re Living in
a Simulation. The only people who absolutely disagree are, well, scientists.
They need to get over themselves and join the fun: https://www.wired.com/story/living-in-a-simulation/
20/03/2022: Putin really does have a hypersonic missile, ergo he can ‘afford’ to have a nuclear war. Very disturbing news. Maybe we should stay out of this: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/russia-deploys-hypersonic-kinzhal-superweapon/
Now just exactly how many wars are going on right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
20/03/2022: Really strange the way
the Left has come out on the side of Zelensky (and eg the awful Azov
Battalion) until now clearly a ‘white supremacist’ and
20/03/2022: What does inflation mean? Tucker’s take. “The standard of living is plummeting”. It is deeply worrying, yet our masters do not seem deeply concerned about this, yet the average housewife and wage earner must surely be. You don’t think this could be(come) the major election issue come May? (Video starts about 20 seconds in) eg, “The internal combustion engine is a miracle upon which all civilization depends”. Oh Yes: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/watch-live-tucker-carlson-opening-statement-3/
In the same vein: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/the_us_must_face_an_existential_threat_but_its_not_climate_change.html
‘You know there’s a problem when the price of beer is up 5 percent’… https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/you-know-theres-a-problem-when-the-price-of-beer-is-up-5-percent/
19/03/2022: I usually hate music (and particularly as sound effect or score/background in films which ruin the dialogue for me - being substantially deaf) but this was really great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGzK2SwG5io&t=120s
19/03/2022: So True: In his science fiction novel Nemesis, Isaac Asimov describes a female character as possessing the "unloveable virtues": Serious, Practical, Responsible, Dutiful. My wife is also beautiful.
19/03/2022: Two sides to what’s going
on in the
19/03/2022: This is what your elite leftist masters have in store for you (and me). Hair shirts for the hoi poloi and dachas for the commissars – it was ever thus. We need to make a huge effort to avoid this. Our traditional Oz complacency (‘She’ll be right mate’) will not cut it. The coming elections must be a wholesale rejection of these left-wing notions including those who have infiltrated the Liberal and National Parties. Where that is the case those members need to be replaced by more conservative folks such as Lib Dems, One Nation, UAP, Fishers & Shooters & etc even if some of these people may seem to lack the competency to run the country. I had not noticed that the two main parties actually overflow with outstanding competency either! https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/iea-wants-energy-lockdowns-drive-slower-ban-cars-on-sunday-ride-share-and-blame-putin/ (PS: IEA = International Energy Agency)
19/03/2022: Maybe at the 11th
hour the world can pull back from the Green Armageddon: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/a-kalibr-missile-just-hit-net-zero-germany-wakes-old-coal-plants-uk-talks-of-backflip-on-gas-oil-fracking-too/
Add these into that equation. For
example: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/16/no-amount-of-incremental-wind-and-solar-power-can-ever-provide-energy-independence/ & https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-3-14-no-amount-of-incremental-wind-and-solar-power-can-ever-provide-energy-independence
& https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/16/green-fuel-folly-forest-thinning-for-wood-pellet-production-has-a-profound-surface-warming-impact/
18/03/2022: Just a reminder: how
burning fossil fuels is greening the planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-nsU_DaIZE&feature=player_embedded#
18/03/2022: Mark
Twain, “I was educated once and it took me years to get over it” So true.
18/03/2022: You
can’t even imagine these shrieking nutters choosing such a logo – have they
never seen a set of male genitals? Well, probably not: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/controversial-womens-network-logo-taken-down-after-twitter-backlash/news-story/fd5e2d01baa384d2d5b4e20fe86fe0e1
18/03/2022: “This
is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper,” TS Eliot ‘The
Hollow Men’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/saudi-arabia-to-accept-yuan-for-chinese-oil-sales/
Maybe time to invest in gold. I have been studying up on what’s available from
the
18/03/2022: You
might not have heard much about the ‘global cooling’ era we are entering or its
impact on the food supply but this article is a reminder of the importance of
successful home gardening. I already warned about the dangers of the coming
‘stagflation’ event last week so get your finances in order – times are likely
to get tougher and governments world-wide have shot their bolts over the
imaginary enemy (covid) and have nothing in their war-chests for the very real
dangers ahead. In any case, as I have observed many times before government is
the problem, not the solution. We will (thankfully) have to get by with less
and less of it in the decades to come. My suggestion has long been to wind it
back by 10% per year until it disappears up its own fundament. BTW If you
haven’t noticed that government kills more people than any other single thing
you just haven’t been watching: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/food_shortages_soon_come__what_to_do.html
17/03/2022: SSDs:
Have you bought one of these yet? 40 Grams. Still working out how to get
stuff in/out of it to my Android phone – but you can https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/sandisk-1tb-e30-portable-ssd-black-sde30ss1tb
I teamed mine with one of these: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/23/ultralight-charging-cable/
Mind you 1 Tb
Micro sd cards are now $214: https://www.amazon.com.au/SanDisk-Ultra-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B08HCPTMJG/ref=asc_df_B08HCPTMJG?tag=bingshopdesk-22&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80676739598376&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4584276306375179&psc=1
17/03/2022: Many Thanks. A friend of mine (Brett) has solved a mystery for me (from
28/02): “This video explains there’s a hidden device in its base: https://youtu.be/Y5dylh2aOiw”
17/03/2022: While
we are on the topic of reparations for past wrongs (I want some too) No,
really I don’t. Though it is true that my ancestors were forced off their
ancient lands (eg by the ‘Enclosure Acts) and then many transported for life to
Australia Felix in the early C19th (and so on), I have enjoyed a wonderful life
right here with the greatest woman imaginable. No-one ‘owes’ me anything.: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/john-cleese-the-romans-the-normans-need-to-pay-reparations-to-the-british.html
17/03/2022: How
aboriginal (and mountain cattlemen) fire management really worked – and why it
is a disaster to abandon it: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/03/blackfellas-whitefellas-greenfellas-and-fire/
17/03/2022: Move
over Buck Rogers, Neil Armstrong, Elon Musk etc, etc. You are just so
patriarchal: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/feminisms-final-frontier-spaceships-are-too-phallic-so.html
16/03/2022: DIY
Ultralight Shoulder Pouches: I sewed up a couple of shoulder strap pouches
(for Best $20 Backpack) from some 2 oz/yd2 ripstop nylon. I guess these are
about 3/4 of a litre each, maybe a litre. They can contain an interesting
assortment of items you might want to access quickly as you walk along. Spare
ammunition, chewing gum etc.
I attached them with an ingenious method I ‘stole’ from
Joe Valesko (Zpacks) though I have no idea whether he still uses them. They
came on my first old pack from him – a long since discontinued model, worse
luck. Simpler is frequently better – and certainly cheaper. Anyway it is a
simple ‘button and loop’ design with a length of cord which works to stop them
slipping down. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/15/diy-ultralight-shoulder-pouches/
16/03/2022: What
a hero she is: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/her-majesty-the-queens-message-on-commonwealth-day.html
16/03/2022: ‘Why
study English’, they say. Because it is utterly astonishing and you don’t
know what you are missing if you don’t: https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/the-twa-corbies/
Warning: may actually take some effort. Sorry. No, not sorry. I can’t see that
AR or AI can ever replace the intelligence needed to study and understand a
16/03/2022: Banning
Rail Guns just seems to me like so much virtue signaling. These things are
unlikely to become anywhere near as effective as DIY pipe guns (that anyone can
make with a few basic tools for probably $10) anytime soon. Eg: https://hackaday.com/2015/11/09/the-most-powerful-diy-railgun/
especially when you should understand that it is already a damned sight easier
and cheaper to buy an illegal firearm (eg a Glock) than it is to buy (and
licence) the legal alternative. Have a nose around docklands, western suburbs and
other sleazy pubs and you will see what I mean. If you have a lazy grand you
can have a pistol pretty much the same day. And this at a time when I would
advocate for making the compulsory ownership
of military semi-automatic weapons pretty much compulsory for lawful
citizens as part of any sane defence strategy.
16/03/2022: If
you have to choose between these two, there really is no choice. Anthony
Albanese has really
15/03/2022: Best
$20 Backpack: Modifying Amazon’s
G4 Free. Inflation has bitten a little since I wrote the previous post
(below) such that now this excellent backpack costs $US
22.99 at Amazon instead of the US$19.99 I paid back in March 2018. That’s
inflation at 3.75% per year by the way. Still a lot cheaper than a plus $300
backpack which will do nothing more – or even do it half so well.
Since then I carried mine to (beyond) Dingboche on the Everest
Base Camp trail – and many other places besides – though our travels have
been somewhat curtailed recently like everyone else’s by covid, or at least its
restrictions.
You can see in this post EBC Gear
List me carrying mine just outside Pangboche over 5 km up in the sky. The
backpack carried everything we needed for a ten day walking trip (including
rain gear, spare clothes, survival, satellite communication (2) cooking,
sleeping and shelter equipment (for -20C temperatures). It weighed a little
over 6 kg. Della’s was nearer 5kg. Almost no food and minimal water. You
can buy it on the way And was outstandingly comfortable.
I hardly noticed I was carrying it (at 70+ years old)
though my worn out knee was ‘killing me’ back then – which is why I had it
replaced last month. It had been causing me significant pain for nearly a
decade now. This used to be called ‘manning up’ and was considered a virtue.
See I
Kneed You
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/14/best-20-backpack/
15/03/2022: Thank
goodness Zachary Rolfe has been acquitted of shooting a mad dog. He should
15/03/2022: An
interesting speculation – one thing is sure: most weather has a natural cause.
Haven’t seen a blue moon or a ‘year without a summer’ for a while as were
caused by previous mighty eruptions: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/did-volcanic-dust-from-hunga-tonga-cause-flooding-in-australia/
Cause and Effect are wonderful: The
eruption of the Indonesian island of Tambora in 1816 plunged the world into
‘darkness’ for around a year, causing massive crop failures, the year without a
summer, and widespread starvation in Europe for example. It also brought us
blood-red sunsets and ‘blue moons’ on account of all the red dust in the sky.
Also surprisingly it brought us the wonderful novel ‘Frankenstein’ on account
of Mary Wolstencraft (Shelley) having to stay indoors all summer due to the
colder than normal weather - and needing something to do!
15/03/2022: Prospero : “O brave new world
That has such people in't!” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/transgender-serial-killer-shopped-99-cent-store-murder-victims-dismembered-leg-video/
15/03/2022: Three
days’ training and then off to war! I know you will say, ‘This will
Mind you they
are in dire straights and may well lose: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/clear-situation-ukraine-desperate-video-week-ago-getting-worse-zelensky-hanging/
14/03/2022: Zpacks
Solo Plex Tent: This morning I received an ad for this tent on Facebook (as
you do). Zpack Plex Solo
Tent. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, they say. I’m sure this
is not the case here but this tent is so, so , like my original Deer
Hunter’s Tent which evolved from my Tyvek
Solo Fire Shelter that the similarities are eerie – and at the time (last
century?) nothing like this existed.
Of course this is most likely because the laws of
physics/geometry are immutable so that (eventually) you find there really is
only one way to do any thing. I did however (originally) post the design,
measurements and instructions (on my old website)
then deleted them as I realized: 1. I might want to commercialise them in
future and 2. Someone else might do so first.However, no doubt they can be
found on the Wayback Machine.
I notice Six Moon Designs have a similarly designed
tent so it is probably just ‘parallel evolution’. They are welcome to my design
now anyway, as Della long since decided ‘we’ would not be launching any new
business ventures, but just enjoy life instead – and she’s the boss, as in most
homes I’m sure.
I am not so keen on Dyneema as Joe is (though I
understand he has made it his trademark material). It is (slightly) lighter (at
from .48 oz) than the best silnylon materials (Ripsopbytheroll’s
.77oz/yd2) but I am not convinced that the very slight weight advantages
are worth the risk of using such very delicate materials. That being said, it
is enormously easier to repair with sticky tape!
It is tricky to cut and sew,but Joe has been doing it so long he has no doubt
worked out all the ‘wrinkles’ in doing it.
A very slight hole in the plastic film covering is very
hard to find and spot though. Non-woven dyneema material does also tend to
‘shred’ away with use , something I am not very fond of. I have had this happen
with a number of packs which if they had been made from a slightly heavier
woven fabric would have lasted several times as long. You are paying very big
money for this special material (something like $25 a yard – and it is
narrower) as compared with $5-7 a yard for (‘ordinary’) silnylon.
Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/03/13/zpack-plex-solo-tent/
14/03/2022: Putin’s
crossing the Rubicon was an enormous financial mistake – but not just for
14/03/2022:
14/03/2022: Imagine
warning that having a nuclear war might cause a climate problem – are we
back to the ‘
14/03/2022: President
Trump is just great – I just can’t wait to see him back in the White House for
another six years come November: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/president-trump-biden-is-crawling-around-the-globe-begging-for-oil-from-saudi-arabia-iran-venezuala.html
13/03/2022: This is as true today as it was in 1854: "Most men are needlessly poor all of their
lives because they think they must have such a house as their neighbors have."
Henry David Thoreau, 'Walden’ - one of my favourite books. You can still build
a small modest house yourself for perhaps $20K. Also so far as I know the
‘minimum’ house is still only a bit over 2 squares ie 25 square metres which
should not cost more than about $5K. I have been working on designs for
wilderness accommodation (for four) which are much smaller than this (around 6
square metres) and well under $500. I will be posting my designs soon. Of
course you have to find a block of land too – blocks still exist out there for
under $40K, some even under $30K. Some of these are quite large and have power
and water. The one at McMahons Creek looks nice: https://www.realestate.com.au/buy/property-land-between-0-50000-in-vic/list-1
NB There are still probably ways to get your hands on some land for less than
this – as Thoreau did after all. We (now) have a very big house (it grew over
the years to over 200 square metres plus verandahs) but I doubt it cost us much
more than $40K. I would think I could still build it today for under $100K.
13/03/2022: When
they thaw Walt’s head out and bring him back to life – it can’t be long now –
there will be big changes at Disney World.
13/03/2022: It
is coming. Beware: You don’t know what ‘cancel culture’ means until they cancel
your credit card and ID card: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/coming-to-a-civilization-near-you-the-totalitarians-wet-dream-a-central-bank-digital-currency/
13/03/2022: This
could very easily get worse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ4-vqO0oQ4&t=97s
12/03/2022: If you are a patriotic Australian who doesn’t want to part with too
much of your hard-earned to outfit yourself, try these folks. I am looking
very smart at present and for about 2/3rds of the cost of local stores. This is
all good gear too which employs Aussies and will last. The King Gee Cool Work
Trousers in a super tough ripstop cotton come in a beautiful green (as well as
black, blue and khaki) for example for A$56. Cheaper and more durable than any
pair of jeans: https://everythingaustralian.com.au/
12/03/2022: A (climactic) voice of sanity: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/09/wuwt-contest-winner-professional-2nd-place-is-there-really-a-climate-crisis/
12/03/2022: They work for us – that’ll be the day: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33561
12/03/2022: Whoa! Let him walk home or see if Elon can fetch him? The pronouns are
more important anyways, surely? https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/03/11/russia-might-abandon-a-u-s-astronaut-on-iss-but-nasa-is-worried-about-pronouns-n1565829
12/03/2022: The same people who tried to hide the truth about Pfizer vaccines
(1223 died during the 3
Tucker’s
Take – yes, it is ominous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2cwGscanAg&t=284s
11/03/2022: Just wow – if only they had found it twenty years ago when maybe 1-2 of
the survivors was still alive: https://endurance22.org/endurance-is-found
11/03/2022: This is democracy? Any way the two main parties can lock you out of
voting for someone else they will use. A ‘plague on both your houses’: https://www.rebelnews.com/liberal_democrats_lose_high_court_bid_but_lib_dems_march_onward
11/03/2022: And there goes Duckduckgo too. The Ministry of Truth wins again: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/ceo-says-duckduckgo-manipulating-search-results-to-down-rank-russian-disinformation.html
11/03/2022: People - for God’s sake! I’m sorry: it’s just so sexist: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/kamala-harris-the-future-of-our-world-is-being-built-by-women-and-girls.html
10/03/2022: That time of year again – ‘The Fight Between Carnival and Lent’, Pieter Bruegels: https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/wp-content/uploads/pieter-bruegel_1559-1559_pieter-bruegel-the-elder-the-fight-between-carnival-and-lent.jpg
10/03/2022: The awful game of ‘marriage chicken’ - and the dismal future
feminists have created for themselves (and men): https://spectator.com.au/2022/03/the-game-of-marriage-chicken/
10/03/2022: It was not always thus – I am not suggesting we go back to this. One
(wonderful) wife is all I need: https://psmag.com/environment/17-to-1-reproductive-success
10/03/2022: The ‘truth’ about the
09/03/2022: Could
09/03/2022: Strapless Backpack: I have been thinking along these lines too
(just a thought at present) but my ‘solution’ was more a U-shape (like carrying
a bag of grain on your shoulders). The hobo’s swag is another example I
suppose. This one looks a bit complicated. However, the point is good – one
should try to carry the load perched on ones callipygous bottom - as the Bushmen
(or women) do. Packs need to be shaped more to fit in to the curve of the spine
(the lordosis – two new words for you, perhaps) more, as Mountain Laurel
Designs packs are shaped to. I will be making myself a new pack sometime in the
future which incorporates this idea, and also the enormous improvement of the
horse collar over the yoke (which I suspect most backpacks have not realized
yet): https://www.noshoulderstraps.com/
09/03/2022: I love this poem (much as I hate the war that stole the poet from us!)
I so agree with the sentiment. It is the small acts of conservation count
most. We have an archway I constructed 20+ years ago harbours many fine birds
who are maybe our friends. The wrens and antechinus love the blackberries I
labour to destroy. The pardalotes find a home in a raw bulldozer cut on the
hillside. The sea eagles nest in the open cut, finding the cliffs to their
liking. The peregrine sees the Station stacks as merely an eyrie. The whistling
kites hunt the ‘pest’ tilapia in the Pondage. Marsh warblers sing from the
cumbungi in the roadside drains. The thornbills love spiders in our old sheds.
Many birds collect our sheep’s cast wool for their nests…life will find a way:
we do not need vast National Parks to destroy nature with vicious wildfires.
Such ‘conservation’ is folly:
Fifty
Faggots: Edward Thomas 1878-1917
There they stand, on their ends, the
fifty faggots
That once were underwood of hazel and
ash
In Jenny Pink's copse. Now, by the
hedge
Close packed, they make a thicket fancy
alone
Can creep through with the mouse and
wren. Next spring
A blackbird or robin will nest there,
Accustomed to them, thinking they will
remain
Whatever is for ever to a bird:
This Spring it is too late; the swift
has come.
'Twas a hot day for carrying them up:
Better they will never warm me, though
they must
Light several Winters' fires. Before
they are done
The war will have ended, many other things
Have ended, maybe, that I can no more
Foresee or more control than robin and
wren.
09/03/2022: Gold is shooting up – time to reach for it, and iodine (for
radiation sickness)? https://goldprice.org/
09/03/2022: We need to understand to what extent we are still being obfuscated by
the legacy of Herbert Marcuse: “The prepackaged opinions and talking points
of political camps, both left and right, are not thought. True thought, rather, is a journey whose destination is
unknown. Everything I write wills itself as a step on that journey, a journey
that considers nothing too small, and nothing too great, as an object of our
sightseeing, a journey where the posture of a statue or the detail in a façade
make us pause and look, just as much as do the demise of armies and the rise
and fall of civilizations. If you refuse to look at certain sights you come
across on that journey—no matter how ugly and hateful they may appear to your
imperfect being—then you will quickly get lost on the road and dizzy yourself
in a labyrinth of solipsism.” A very thought-provoking and well-written essay: https://quillette.com/2022/03/02/herbert-marcuse/
08/03/2022: This is an otter fisherman. Because they exist it lends credence to
the ‘legend’ of wild otters in NZ, a creature the Maori also had a name for
(though no-one has yet captured a photograph of one). They have (allegedly)
been seen even recently near Tautapere for example. However that may turn out,
I feel that there is no doubt Chinese sailors explored the East Coast of
Here
is a possible example: https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth/videos/536017841085513
08/03/2022: The Modern Headhunter: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/03/box-human-heads-stolen-truck-denver/
This
has been happening in
08/03/2022: Maybe it will turn out to be a different ‘great reset’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/two-weeks-of-war-undoes-thirty-years-of-energy-propaganda-everyone-wants-fossil-fuels/
08/03/2022: I have been wrong before. Maybe soon we will be talking about a
Ukrainian invasion of
This
is how it’s done: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/03/how_technology_has_saved_ukraine.html
07/03/2022: Why are we destroying our men: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/2020-update-for-every-100-girls-part-i/
07/03/2022: Step Back in Time – a ‘Told You So’ moment. During
the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah
Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his
“indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to
invade Ukraine’: https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2014/02/28/Flashback-Palin-Mocked-in-2008-for-Warning-Putin-May-Invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-Elected-President/
07/03/2022: Make the Nimbys pay for their own boondoggles. Absolutely. I wonder how
many young Greta followers would choose to opt out of paying more tax? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/05/british-government-young-people-should-pay-for-climate-action/
07/03/2022: Stop
– before it is too late! “Reality -- like truth and goodness -- is not fungible.
Whether we wish it to be or not. We did not ask to be born. None of us. No
living being. No one ever arranged their own birth. That is the truth, a fact.
Impossible. Yet here we are. Therefore, it is simply impossible that our rights
come from other humans or living things. Or that reality comes from Mark
Zuckerberg.” (‘Fungible’ = ‘interchangeable’) https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/03/the_metaverse_artificial_intelligence_and_the_assault_on_reality.html
06/03/2022:
Fortunately
Morrison has already stepped up our defence spending: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin-australia-must-turbocharge-its-defence-capabilities/news-story/6c70cd7398b348c16fbe2b9dca97f9da
06/03/2022: The Covid Crimes Trials. You can only hope there will be so that
the (now) millions unnecessarily killed by covid because of wicked restrictions
of cheap effective drugs can receive
some justice and monsters like our Dictator Dan can be put to the wall: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/dr-andrew-hill-how-many-people-died-because/
06/03/2022: Whatever happened to this: Article
19 from the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the
right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold
opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
However,
I can see his point: Tommy Robinson, “
06/03/2022: The Citroen Ami a $12,000 EV (unsuited for most roads) – how this
is better than a Suzuki A lot is beyond me. Ah, the future…almost glad I won’t
be around to see it: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/the-citroen-ami-mini-ev-the-covered-mobility-scooter/
05/03/2022: Time for a good news story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=278&v=PVPyLoYyUVk&feature=emb_title
05/03/2022: Watermelons: I have been saying for years that they are green on the
outside and red on the inside – ever since Patrick Moore a Greenpeace founder
revealed that the (‘disappearing’) communists took over the ‘environmental’
movement when ‘The Wall’ came down, so long ago now. All that time they
have been taking money from the (ex) communists (Putin et al) to destroy the
West in every way they could think of, just as ‘fellow travelers’ had been
doing amongst us ever since the Bolshevik Revolution (Nov 1917). The enemy
within. I know my University days in the 60s were full of them. How many I
knocked down with my fists back then, but not enough – and not permanently
enough. We let them win. Don’t just think of their ‘environmental’ plans here.
Their social (‘marriage equality’, gender identity etc) and economic (welfare,
social justice, social housing…) have been just as important - and perfidious.
They want a people who are secondary and subservient to ‘The State’. They
always have. They are terrified of the idea that the State is a social
construct which ‘The People’ implement from time to time for (clearly defined)
purposes and ought itself to be secondary and temporary in nature. Primacy is an
independent self-sufficient populace going about their own business with as few
(external ) rules and controls as possible ie Freedom. They absolutely hate the
very idea of freedom. Their money trail and agenda has become clearer in the
last little while: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/russian-linked-groups-donated-to-anti-frakking-green-groups-because-they-love-the-planet-right/
05/03/2022: I suspect also that Putin will succeed in
05/03/2022: However, sometimes a cheap (new) weapon can change the outcome of a
war. This may also happen with submarine warfare. This was (after all)
Howard’s ‘solution’ to making
04/03/2022: A Balloon Eclipse: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/bill-thompsons-celestial-numbers-come-up.html
04/03/2022: What can you do with such people? https://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/crime/queensland-saw-amputation-victim-suffered-an-undiagnosed-medical-condition-family-believe/news-story/2304a58be2dd0a3975a269d380598f57
04/03/2022: Another truly remarkable essay by Lord Monckton which makes so many
puzzling evils so much clearer. It has made up my mind on a host of issues,
not least which side I should be supporting in the current Ukrainian
‘situation’. A must read. Really: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/03/the-strategic-threat-from-net-zero-emissions/
04/03/2022: Who are the real enemies (of the West?) Surely: the Left, Islam and
03/03/2022: Andrew
Hastie making it clear we should send more than pronouns or pronunciation.
I like this guy – can we have him as PM some day. Well, today? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/03/andrew-hastie-mp-on-sending-australian-ammunition-missiles-to-kill-russians.html
03/03/2022: Apparently
when the Russians actually invade it might be time to realise (too late) you
might need energy independence – even if you are a Green nut-job - over to you
Scotty: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/03/01/german-green-party-embraces-coal-lng-and-nuclear/
Another
way to put it: https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/the-wests-green-delusions-empowered?utm_source=url&s=r
03/03/2022: Interesting
data. BTW: We are triple vaccinated (Astra Zenica) for one reason or
another – eg having needed a knee replacement). Covid certainly seems to have
slipped from the front page (before we died of boredom instead) but disquiet
about mRNA vaccines continues to increase (in the background). Clearly evidence
now of long-term DNA effects which were specifically denied possible at the
outset. Novavax has now been approved as a booster (if you still want a
vaccine): https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/01/russia-distraction-uk-gov-revealed-triple-vaccinated-account-9-in-10-covid-deaths/
03/03/2022: Maybe
long since time we thought about moving
03/03/2022: Selective
Crisis Enhancement (SCE) – we need a new acronym surely? We seem to move or
be moved from one ‘crisis’ to another as recently from Covid to the Ukraine.
I’m not sure either of them were (worthy) crises) really, but someone (in
charge?) is picking these out from the bundle and ordering that they be
accentuated as if they were the sole challenge facing humanity – and so that we
don’t get to thinking about other things. The folks fighting the war in
02/03/2022: You
might think the battle for
02/03/2022: At least plastic supermarket bags were
recyclable but we have rushed into flooding the world with worthless products
which are not: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/americas-national-renewable-energy-lab-warns-a-tidal-wave-of-wind-and-solar-waste-is-coming/
02/03/2022: Completely agree with Neil Oliver: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/33178
01/03/2022: This guy was great: Henry Louis Mencken
(1880-1956): "I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing
that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand
years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when
the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest
qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the
shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I
believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound
to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however
slight the measure, is bound to become a slave."
01/03/2022: One thing I notice (and have railed about
for years) is that ‘statists’ do seem to believe that the whole ball-game is
‘for the good of the state’ something which we and ours are all just
property of - like it was stamped on our bottoms at birth. One thing which
really stood out (to me) about 1776 was the Declaration that it was (instead)
all about ‘The People’ who could (rightfully) take up arms to remove an unjust
government and whose inalienable rights could be removed by such a government
but not guaranteed by one. The state needed to be kept within quite narrow
circumscribed limits. I still think this is an important watershed moment in
history. Government always and everywhere needs to be wound back with power and
wealth kept firmly in the hands of The People.
01/03/2022: What is really going on In the
Surely (for
example) this ‘news’ story could not be true: https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/25863/putin-destroys-7-u-s-bioweapons-labs-in-ukraine/
01/03/2022: Well Said Andrew Bolt: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-ukrainians-are-heroes-to-all-of-us/news-story/389f6056f6f443bbe104e1cbb98d11c5
01/03/2022: The Importance of Men:
28/02/2022: Thank goodness at least the Stock Market is
setting new records – I would hate to think the good burghers of
28/02/2022: I have to own one of these: https://www.atiki.shop/products/kinetic-art?st=&fbclid=IwAR1cVv-uuhn706xHsCORB9T1dy70xuLvXEJCSsdpiKM7rEBhTRt2VOlgmbk
PS: The more I look at and think about this object the
more I feel that It can't possibly exist. Surely it defies the laws of physics.
Once I could have written out the equations ot show this. By the same token
someone once said the same thing about whether bumble bees could fly yet I have
seen them doing so. Will I have to purchase one to see whether it is a fake - or
a new source of energy? You have to click on the link and open it then scroll
down to see the video.
A friend of mine (Brett) explains: “This video explains
there’s a hidden device in its base
28/02/2022: Knee Update 3: Good to know Putin is better than Hitler (at conquering the
27/02/2022: Many Ukrainians have (unsurprisingly) not
forgotten the Holdomor.
There exists an excellent 2019 film about it (eponymously) ‘Mr Jones’. You
should steal a copy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/
27/02/2022: Those
of ‘us’ who thought (again and again) we just could not have another war were
wrong again – and will continue to be so! If folks think they can have a
‘quick war’ (and win) they will give it a try most every time. Your prayers
will do nothing to prevent that. Bullies need to be convinced before they start
that they will have neither. This used to be called ‘Defence’. Older people
must be reminded of the ‘Phoney War’ period at the beginning of WW2 – let’s
hope this is not a repetition. A reminder, real people are dying. I am waiting
for major leaders to tell Vlad very loudly to ‘Back Off’ eg ‘Tomorrow we will
destroy the Kremlin’.
26/02/2022: What
could go wrong: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25333751-700-meet-the-robots-that-can-reproduce-learn-and-evolve-all-by-themselves/
26/02/2022: “The
peoples of autocratic countries don’t get to choose their governments; that is
their tragedy. The peoples of liberal democracies get a choice, and that is
theirs. The fact that the people of the United States have chosen to be led by
a geriatric incompetent, at this moment in time, is more than a tragedy for
America; it is a tragedy for the entire world” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/02/1939-revisited/
26/02/2022: The
dilemma for the West: you can’t win a geopolitical conflict lasting years or
decades with an economy powered intermittently by wind turbines and solar
panels: https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/02/24/standing_up_to_putin_means_ditching_net-zero_818493.html
26/02/2022:
18/02/2022:
18/02/2022: Harry Cummins make a fine case for why I
believe in ‘discrimination’ or ‘discernment’ as I prefer to call it,
particularly in relation to immigration but also (for example) in relation to
the franchise. ‘No taxation without representation' formed the cornerstone of
American democracy you might remember. I would probably prefer to turn that on
its head, ie ‘No representation without taxation’ so that you only get to
choose who is the government and what the government spends (your) money on if
you have contributed (financially) to that government. A very thought-provoking
essay anyway: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/01/the-common-cause-of-china-and-islam/?fbclid=IwAR3RijMTcM2IeC6Sak3AUePXGXeNwHfsDjRfj4O9TZ1imw4slF4RRTAQrqE
18/02/2022: Knee Update #2: I have walked to the toilet and shower (using a
walker) and am now all clean and sitting in a chair. All going well so far -
and thank you all very much for the kind thoughts and well-wishing. Already
planning future hikes - Vic mountains (hopefully by May), Mt Bartle Frere
(alternate route) late June, EBC and surrounds late Oct and back to the Dusky
(Fiordland, NZ) in Feb/March. An example of where we would like to be: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2019/11/17/everest-days-1-2-lukla-to-namche-bazar/?fbclid=IwAR1R3V36ZjmJYb0cU-Zq0qKl8MfaiP8uVNkhhuGpmb4ZRtmogowldqcOj1o
17/02/2022: Knee update: Just to let you know that
5 hours after going down to surgery I am siting up in bed and still have ten
toes. Time will tell how well all this went. Many thanks for all your good
wishes. I will keep you posted,
17/02/2022: Ain’t
it the truth: Aussie beer tax slammed as ‘sexist’: https://www.rebelnews.com/aussie_beer_tax_cut_slammed_as_sexist
17/02/2022: If I
am a bit quiet for a few days it is because I am in hospital having a knee
replacement. Hopefully this gives me a whole new lease on life!
17/02/2022: On
the persistence of bad ideas: https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/2/firing-the-canon
17/02/2022: Terrible
news P.J. O’Rourke is dead. Laughter died with him: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/pj-orourke-passes-away/
‘Eat the Rich’,
an example of his greatness: https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Treatise-Economics-ORourke/dp/0871137607?asin=0871137607&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
16/02/2022: Why
SpaceX is going to dominate air freight: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/02/spacex-reusable-rocket-costs-versus-airplanes.html
16/02/2022: The
revolution really has begun: 81% of Canadians (already) oppose Trudeau’s response
to the trucker protest: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/32561
Trudeau goes
full Nazi: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/trudeau-declares-all-truckers-donors-and-honkers-are-terrorists-seize-their-bank-accounts/
16/02/2022:
Notice how the Greens and the Left’s vote is collapsing. Conservatives are
several points ahead: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/adam_bandt_s_greens_circle_the_drain_as_voter_support_collapses
16/02/2022:
Meanwhile
Seems that news
was highly exaggerated!
15/02/2022: This
pub survived the Black Death but could not survive covid lunacy. Let that
be a lesson to you all: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/oldest-pub-in-britain-closes-after-1229-years/
15/02/2022: The
truckers have brought about a massive change in public opinion in just a
15/02/2022: What
do greens really want? We must not bow to this sort of climate madness: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/02/amid-energy-crisis-uk-government-uses-regulatory-death-curse-on-massive-local-gas-industry/
15/02/2022: Last
Week the “Experts” Admitted Lockdowns Did Not Reduce Mortality Rates — Now They
Admit Masking Was Mostly Worthless: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/wow-last-week-experts-admitted-lockdowns-not-reduce-mortality-rates-now-admit-masking-mostly-worthless/
May be useful
advice: https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/heres-how-to-detox-from-the-covid-spike-protein-from-the-jab-or-the-virus/
14/02/2022: Who
needs Netflix, etc? The Internet Archive has thousands of fine movies and TV
shows for streaming (without ads) for free: https://archive.org/details/feature_films
14/02/2022:
Useful Instructable: How to open a locked door without a key: https://www.popularmechanics.com/home/a25318691/how-open-locked-door/
14/02/2022: Well
said Joel – everyone needs to step back from trying to steal votes from the
extreme Left. Instead these evil forces need to be rejected and exorcised: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/labor-mp-says-party-is-better-off-in-opposition-than-doing-deal-with-greens-in-event-of-hung-parliament/news-story/7a63587e1ddaed778ea38c20917bb051
You should try
to understand the cost of green lunacy: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/here_s_the_cost_of_a_labor_greens_government
14/02/2022: When
you are punished for doing a public service: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/i-have-no-problem-with-this-murder/
13/02/2022:
Nature is awesome: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/massive-swarm-of-birds-plummet-to-the-earth-dead-very-bizarre-video/
13/02/2022: Amid
the witch-hunting of our greatest warrior and hero Ben Roberts-Smith VC please
try to understand why we have a military, (Clue: It is not to push some bizarre
woke agenda): https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-retired-marine-3-star-general-explains-critical-military-theory/ar-AATHzEt?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531
13/02/2022: What
if a revolution had already started and no-one even noticed (because the media
are part of the system). Remember how the collapse of the